In message <[email protected]>, "Dieter BSD" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ronald writes: >> the last Alpha to be produced was shipped way back in 2004... eight years >> ago... with a top speed of 1.3 GHz. Â I now have a cheap little media player >> thingy sitting on my desk, and _each_ of its two cores runs faster than that. >> In short, Alphas hardly constitute high-end hardware in this day and age. > >So clock rate is the only thing that matters in your world? Yea, pretty much. As regards to reliability, except for the occasional low-level quirk (which is usually taken care of for me by the kernel guys) I've never had a processor fail on me. Once, about five or six years ago I accidentally burnt up an Athlon XP (by not having the heatsink properly seated) but that was entirely my fault. >I never found a way to boot from different partitions, much less >different disks with GPT. Having just been recently convinced to switch over to GPT (from MBR) I do most sincerly hope that you are either joking or mistaken about this. >The useless CHS baggage hangs around for decades, but useful >hardware loses all support 5 nanoseconds after the last machine >is sold. Other useful hardware waits years hoping to get support. Yeabut on the bright side, you can't beat the price! Regards, rfg
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