Okay, I for one would love to be running my own alpha.  Now from what
dealing I had some time ago maintaining DEC alpha boxes, they had glue
flash PROM's for specific OS handling - say I contact these folks you
mention and order either an SX or LX board hoping to build a system.
Can I run 1.3.1 or -current out of the box on such a board?  -- Ken

| Here are some motherboard+CPU only prices ($USA) I got from DCG
| Inc. recently.  Lots of people have had successful dealings with them.
| 
|     PC164LX & SX
|     Processor     cache     price     SPECint95     SPECfp95
|     211PC-533MHz  1mb-7.5ns $ 800.    12.4          16.1 <New SX>
|     21164-533MHz  2mb-9ns   $1300.    16.1          18.8 <New LX>
|     21164-600MHz  2mb-9ns   $2845.    17.9          19.9
| 
| (I hope they don't mind my posting this excerpt from the quote!  I'd
| personally love to encourage lots of NetBSD folks to choose Alpha
| instead of Intel, and I think these prices should do just that.)