Lets call this one an Alpha

kbsingh@Alpha:~$ uname -a
Linux Alpha 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Sun May 29 18:40:58 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux

kbsingh@Alpha:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu                     : Alpha
cpu model               : EV56
cpu variation           : 7
cpu revision            : 0
cpu serial number       :
system type             : Miata
system variation        : 0
system revision         : 0
system serial number    :
cycle frequency [Hz]    : 499783053 est.
timer frequency [Hz]    : 1024.00
page size [bytes]       : 8192
phys. address bits      : 40
max. addr. space #      : 127
BogoMIPS                : 994.44
kernel unaligned acc    : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc      : 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string         : Digital Personal WorkStation 500au
cpus detected           : 1

Not the fastest machine in the world, but just as quick as my last Alpha ( which still sits quietly in one corner of my flat back home ). Got Debian on this box for now, while I download and burn to CD the CentOS/alpha distro. That should go on in the next few days.

Now, anyone know where I can get some memory for this machine ? Cheap even ? The specifications for this machine say it can goto 1.5GB of ram. I'll settle for 1 Gig. And this might be the home for my TerraByte Storage as well.

Also, SRM is amazing. Its funny how we accept brain dead BIOS's on the PC, and have done so for so many years. Is it because the users just dont know beyond and it suits the manufacturers to just keep users in that state ?

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Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ }