> Wish this Alpha was close to performance of the Pentium Pro.  For $800 to
> get a case, good graphics card, SCSI controler (even though the disk is 
> small), eithernet, etc. it looks like a great deal - except if the
> processor is going to be at the 50MZ Pentium speed.

Right.  Like i said: my main motivation was that I wanted to have a
couple of alphas at home.  The fact that they were tightly integrated
(in a tiny box 8-) made it even better.

Really, overall, it's a fair deal but not one that i'd call "great."


chris