Though I don't think the early machines featuring the alpha chip were actually called alphas. I think they may have been called decstations or something. Also there was a rather cool looking machine called the alphavax which was a combination of an alpha cpu and vax i/o hardware. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:22 PM Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha > Yes, I think the Alpha chip goes back to 1992 or 1993. Something like that. Before Monica Lewinsky, in any case! <grin> > > Sina Bahram writes: > > Wait...they had a 64 bit CPU back in the day? > > > > Take care, > > Sina > > > > No trees were destroyed in sending this message; however, a large number of > > electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > > On Behalf Of Janina Sajka > > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 11:36 AM > > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. > > Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha > > > > > > A 64-bit CPU , and an entire line of workstations and servers designed > > around the several versions of that cpu, produced by Digital Equipment > > Corporation (DEC). You may have heard of this company's speech > > synthesizers?? <sly grin> > > > > nick G writes: > > > In It's day, what was Alpha? > > > Thanks, > > > Nick > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net> > > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > > > Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 8:22 AM > > > Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha > > > > > > > > > > Yeah, it really is rather cool to have one of these monsters > > > > spitting up > > > their bios to a Braille Lite. And you really don't need a video card > > > either. My machine doesn't have a video card--Speakup just references > > > the dummy video driver. > > > > > > > > If you know Debian better, then stick with it. I believe Debian > > > > packages > > > for Alpha are more up to date. The last Red Hat release for Alpha is > > > 7.2, though there is some movement for porting Fedora. > > > > > > > > It's old hardware, though, and finding parts can be challenging. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Janina Sajka, Director > Technology Research and Development > Governmental Relations Group > American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup > Free Standards Group (FSG) > > Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
