Speakup kernels on Alpha

[Alex Snow]

Though I don't think the early machines featuring the alpha chip were
actually called alphas. I think they may have been called decstations or
something. Also there was a rather cool looking machine called the alphavax
which was a combination of an alpha cpu and vax i/o hardware.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha


> Yes, I think the Alpha chip goes back to 1992 or 1993. Something like
that. Before Monica Lewinsky, in any case! <grin>
>
> Sina Bahram writes:
> > Wait...they had a 64 bit CPU back in the day?
> >
> > Take care,
> > Sina
> >
> > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number
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> > electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
[mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
> > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 11:36 AM
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha
> >
> >
> > A 64-bit CPU , and an entire line of workstations and servers designed
> > around the several versions of that cpu, produced by Digital Equipment
> > Corporation (DEC). You may have heard of this company's speech
> > synthesizers?? <sly grin>
> >
> > nick G writes:
> > > In It's day, what was Alpha?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Nick
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:22 AM
> > > Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha
> > >
> > >
> > > > Yeah, it really is rather cool to have one of these monsters
> > > > spitting up
> > > their bios to a Braille Lite. And you really don't need a video card
> > > either. My machine doesn't have a video card--Speakup just references
> > > the dummy video driver.
> > > >
> > > > If you know Debian better, then stick with it. I believe Debian
> > > > packages
> > > for Alpha are more up to date. The last Red Hat release for Alpha is
> > > 7.2, though there is some movement for porting Fedora.
> > > >
> > > > It's old hardware, though, and finding parts can be challenging.
> >
> >
> >
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