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Re: $99 DEC Multia

"R. Paul McCarty" <mccarty@reg16.admin.rochester.edu> wrote:
>Anyone seen this small DEC Alpha system? It looks like a great little
>motherboard/cpu for a medium sized wearble; comparable to the corel
>netwinder, but I believe the Alpha chip has good floating point operations
>and configured for a 2.5in HDD, with builtin ethernet, SVGA, sound,
>SCSI-2 interface, 2 PCMCIA ports, two serial ports, parallel port, etc.
>and at a great price; just $99 (minus HDD and memory) If nothing else it
>might make a nice X-station.
>
>  http://www.cpumicromart.com/multia/index.cfm

First of all, this is horrible for a wearable. Maybe a luggable at best. They
draw waaaay to too much power and are too heavy for these types of projects.

A lot of folks in the Linux community has been complainng that CPUmicromart was
taking several weeks to get the machines shipped to them. Like on the order of
8 or 9. I can't verify this for sure but at least a half dozen individuals on 
the comp.os.linux..alpha group have complained about them. Oth

I have a multia and I maintain a FAQ about them. Check out
ftp.cc.gatech.edu:/pub/group/systems/vernard/udb/faq.txt

hope this helps

V
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