>
> ...has anyone else played with this machine?  It's a DS10-L w/512 meg
> running a GENERIC kernel.

21264 machine!? something new :)
i had account on 21164.


> http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/current.shtml
>
> ...they drop outbound tcp/udp/icmp, so the box is basically useless for
> toying, but you can ftp _to_ it, so I was thinking about cross-compiling
> some kernels on it.  It's free CPU time on a nice machine.
>
> ---
> COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10 466 MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 512 MB
> (2824 KB reserved for PROM, 509 MB used by NetBSD)
> avail memory = 467 MB
> using 3271 buffers containing 26168 KB of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21264-4 (pass 3)
> cpu0: Architecture extensions: 303<PAT,MVI,FIX,BWX>
> ---
>
> --Brian
>
>  ----
>
> "GNU/Linux: About as stable as the elements at the bottom of the periodic
> table"
>

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