Speakup kernels on Alpha

[Alex Snow]

What's the ploint?
The alphas run various versions of unix including linux, bsd, and true 64.
Tehre's no point installing any version of winblows even if you could. The
last version that ran on these machines was nt4, but I think microsoft had
plans to port win2k to that platform that were abandoned.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Ervin at Home" <GlennErvin at cableone.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha


> are there any alpha motherboards that will run win98?
> I don't like a machine to run only NT or Linux.
> I could live with MS-DOS, in place of winblows, but this is the
restrictions
> I have noticed when I search for alpha motherboards.
> I would like to find an alpha with an EISA slot, but the only one I found
> has a processor limit of 500 MHZ.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 4:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha
>
>
> I've found ebay to be a nice resource for alpha parts. also the newsgroup
> comp.sys.dec is pretty good for both alpha/vax parts and machines. i saw a
> quad processor alphaserver with something like 2.5gb ram and 2 disk arays
> going for $2000 in that group.
>
> ----- 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.
> >
> > Alex Snow writes:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm also looking to aquire an old alpha (the au series has caught my
> > > attention recently). What's the best distro one should run on these
> > > machines? I know debian supports alpha and I think redhat/fedora do,
but
> > > which of those two would be the easiest to get up and running? I'm
> thinking
> > > debian because I already have a fair amount of experience with that
> distro.
> > >
> > > One of the reasons I'm going for the alpha (other then being cool and
> > > 64-bit) is the accessibility of it's hardware settings. This is the
same
> > > with my microvax (which doesn't even have a graphics card in it) and I
> kind
> > > of like being able to modify bios settings without sited help.
> >
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