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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE:  BSD vs. Linux
Date: 9 Sep 1995 19:55:38 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Kurt M. Hockenbury (kmh@linux.stevens-tech.edu) wrote:

:      * Jensen
:        This is the EISA-bus based AlphaPC---you can now get faster
:        machines for less money, so unless you have one already, you
:        probably don't want to get one). As far as I know, you can buy it
:        as a completely system only. It uses the 21064 Alpha CPU.

Note that DEC doesn't make these anymore.  Early versions used EISA and
later versions used PCI.  This makes sense as there was a period of time
when PCI bus chips were very whacky.
--
Rick Kelly  rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com  rmk@rmkhome.com