Re: Non-intel

2001-05-23 Thread Marc A . Volovic
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:14:11AM +0300, Pasha Zusmanovich wrote: > Marc A. Volovic wrote: > > > uh. it would be nice indeed (speaking as proud owner of (totally) > nonfunctional sun-1 (sic!)). this is somewhat orthogonal to linux > though, so I doubt this list would be a good place for it. Ok,

Re: [OFFTOPIC**2 + ONTOPIC] Multiprocessor boards (was: Re: Non-intel)

2001-05-15 Thread Shaul Karl
> For a project I may need a SMP motherboard with the following specs: > 1. 3 processors. > 2. Linux support is mandatory. > 3. Processors from Intel or its competitors - advantage (i.e. Alpha, >Sparc, etc. are at disadvantage). > > As of now, I am not familiar with the Israeli market of such

Re: [OFFTOPIC**2 + ONTOPIC] Multiprocessor boards (was: Re: Non-intel)

2001-05-15 Thread Marc A . Volovic
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:23:25PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > For a project I may need a SMP motherboard with the following specs: > 1. 3 processors. 2 or 4 only, 3 is for such esoteric machines as SPARC. Worse, 4 is ONLY Xeon or Pentium Pro. Quads are extremely expensive (i.e. motherboards cost mo

[OFFTOPIC**2 + ONTOPIC] Multiprocessor boards (was: Re: Non-intel)

2001-05-15 Thread Omer Zak
For a project I may need a SMP motherboard with the following specs: 1. 3 processors. 2. Linux support is mandatory. 3. Processors from Intel or its competitors - advantage (i.e. Alpha, Sparc, etc. are at disadvantage). As of now, I am not familiar with the Israeli market of such workhorses. I

Re: Non-intel

2001-05-15 Thread Pasha Zusmanovich
Marc A. Volovic wrote: > > In any case, I _am_ refering to non-ia{32,64} architechtures, myself > being an owner of an SS5, SS20 and a non-functional Alpha 21164 (which > lacks memory and motherboard ;-). > > You are right that there are no Israel-specific issues with non-Redmond > (or, rather,

Re: Non-intel

2001-05-14 Thread Yedidya Bar-david
Hi I am interested. I own an Indy. Currently, with Irix. I tried Linux (almost a year ago), and it didn't have a usable X server. I think it has now, havn't tested recently. I use it mostly as an X terminal (it has a quite good 19" monitor). (I also have 3 other machines - all Linux/x86, one stro

Re: Non-intel

2001-05-13 Thread Jonathan Ben-Avraham
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Marc A. Volovic wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:15:05AM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > > > If you mean Linux on non-X86 architecture, then I am certainly > > interested, though I am not sure there are many israel specific issues. > > If, instead you are alluding to discu

Re: Non-intel

2001-05-13 Thread Marc A . Volovic
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:15:05AM +0300, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > If you mean Linux on non-X86 architecture, then I am certainly > interested, though I am not sure there are many israel specific issues. > If, instead you are alluding to discussions of overclocking Durons, then > I am not intreres