Re: looking for a server

[Paul Mather <paul%gromit.dlib.vt.edu@localhost>]

On 3 Apr 2008, at 7:06 PM, Miles Nordin wrote:
> > > > > > "pm" == Paul Mather <paul%gromit.dlib.vt.edu@localhost> writes:
>
>    pm> The first CD burner I ever bought was for my DEC 3000/300.  It
>    pm> burned CDs just fine using cdrecord.  That Alpha lasted longer
>    pm> than the CD burner, too. :-)
>
> srsly guys, reminiscing is great, and they are beautiful machines and
> all that, but when someone asks serious questions about getting work
> done we need to not reply out of our happy fantasy worlds.  ``IDE is
> sketchy on Alpha, and no one can agree the problem exists much less
> fix it.  CD's do not burn.  Burning CD's works okay on sparc64.''
>
>  ^^^^ This is helpful.
>
> ``Once upon a time I had the greatest CD burner on the greatest
> machine, so CD burning on Alphas is wonderful, but it was a SCSI
> burner^W^W^W^W^W^W[SEND]''
>
>  ^^^^ is, frankly, deceptive and, in terms of helpfulness, worse than
>       nothing.

Deceptive?  Everything I wrote was FACT.  It may not be fact for all  
versions of NetBSD/alpha and all Alpha models, but it is a 100% true  
statement I made.

As for helpfulness, if you wanted to tell the guy to get a Sparc-based  
system instead, why not just come right out and say it instead of  
going all around the houses? :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

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