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most of the alpha hardware is server stuff.. I don't know of any that have
AGP.
what you should do first is familiarize yourself with alpha's CPU history.
and the preformance pros and cons of the system..
if you're worried about AGP graphics, you shouldn't even bother with alpha
stuff. just stick with intel for what you're doing.
Thank You,
Ben Kochie (ben at nerp.net)
"Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends."
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Mike Hicks wrote:
> I've been looking to dump the Intel architecture for a while.. As anyone
> who has looked at it will tell you, it's gotten pretty crufty. Since I
> run Linux and only Linux, this isn't terribly hard to do, either.
>
> Anyway, I'm just curious if there are places where you can actually buy
> parts for Alpha systems. I realize this stuff's probably out of my price
> range (though there is apparently a guy selling a whole pile of 600MHz
> Alpha processors on Ebay for $300 each).
>
> I almost bid on that plus an Alpha motherboard, but the only mobo I could
> find only had 4 PCI slots, and no AGP. If I could get that (or a better)
> processor and a motherboard with AGP for a reasonable prosumer price, I
> might go for it (and then kick myself for not saving my money ;-)
>
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