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I got 3 of these babies today (being really yesterday). Apparently they’re 125mhz Alphas with a min of 16MB RAM.<\/p>\n

Apparently I can run True64, OpenVMS or NetBSD on them. Some people have tried to get linux going, but I haven’t found any success stories as of yet.<\/p>\n

I’m tempted to put NetBSD on and play with it a bit… Another UNIX box can’t hurt, even if I just use it as an X terminal to a Linux box (they’ve got lovely big trinitron screens).<\/p>\n

Was hoping to use them as Linux test boxes, but it looks like that’s going to be more trouble than it’s worth….. looks like it’s back to the P150….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got 3 of these babies today (being really yesterday). Apparently they’re 125mhz Alphas with a min of 16MB RAM. Apparently I can run True64, OpenVMS or NetBSD on them. 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