still someone here ?

[Davis Johnson]

That is good to hear. I stopped paying quite so close attention back 
when there was discussion of dropping support for EV4 & EV45, which 
covers all my Alphas. The AS500 still gets fired up to check the 
portability of application source. Did anybody ever get a patch for that 
weird PCMCIA bridge mucking up DMA on the Alphabook? Rumor has it that a 
patch existed for older kernels but I never found it...
> I'm not aware of anyone on this list ever owning one. Do you?
>
I've got one, and a couple of disks. Everything about it is hard. The 
largest disk that I have found is 1G. I can build a kernel in that. 128M 
ram max, I've got it. No network except on a PCMCIA card. That wouldn't 
be so bad probing the PCMCIA bridge makes the disk go away. I play with 
it when I want to tilt at windmills.

Allegedly it can be net booted with the right NIC, but no progress 
diskless, either.