Re: The Alpha is an end of life product Re: Ultrasparc III docume ntation

[Ted Goodridge <tedgoodridgejr@acm.org>]

This discussion is all well and good, but it doesn't answer my original 
question.  Can you get what you need from the alpha that you need from the 
ultrasparc III?

There is an alpha port for OpenBSD (tho I do not know if it is currently 
maintained.)  There is a large alpha community (I own one, and the 
debian-alpha and redhat alpha lists are very active.)  There are many wasy to 
pick up an affordable (albeit old) alpha off ebay.

The military and government use a lot of alphas, and they have existing 
contracts that HP will honor.  That and the easy access to documentation 
(from what I understand) make it an attractive platform even if it will die 
in 3 years.  (3 years is an eternity in the computing world.)

I will ask my qusetion one more time: can you get what Theo needs/desires 
(technologically) from a alpha based machine?  If the answer is a flat out 
no, then everything else is really unimportant.

Ted