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> From: 	Graham Allan
> 
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:46:54PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
> > 
> > but multias are so cute!  (in an island of dr. moreau / engineering
> > experiment gone wrong sort of way.)
> > 
> > they are the slowest alphas ever made, no?
> 
> Not quite... they're faster than the 100MHz 21064 systems (DEC3000m300L
> and Alphastation 200 4/100)! The 233MHz Multia was about the same speed
> for our code as the 150MHz 3000m300.
> 
> I think they're cute too. They would be *so* much more useful if SRM
> could boot from IDE though - if only I could replace those stupid SCSI
> laptop drives (most of which have by now failed) with IDE ones...
> that's the biggest failing to me.
> 
> Graham
> -- 
> 
	Why not have it boot off the floppy, then it can mount the IDE
drives normally? IIRC, you can then remove the kernel floppy, and use it
normally...

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