I'll try to get my hands on it. 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Alex Snow Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:00 PM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: Speakup kernels on Alpha Yup. There's a howto that describes, in great detail, the different alpha cpus. I think it's called the alpha-howto or something. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx> To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:32 PM Subject: RE: Speakup kernels on Alpha 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [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 _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
