At 10:24 AM -0500 2/14/02, David Woyciesjes wrote:
>  > ----------
>>  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...

Heh, but if you remove the floppy, then you had better be sure that 
you're present anytime it needs a reboot ;-)

Mike
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