Re: good bye

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

Hi Gary!

Gary Richardson wrote:
> The Digital Server 5300 was a nice running machine. I bought
> it new on Ebay after Microsoft decided to can 2000 on alpha.

There's W2K for alpha?

> It never ran anything other than Linux starting with
> RedHat 7.1. There have been challenges because there were
> not a lot of these machines and few running Linux

I guess most of them where running Digtial Unix or Tru64, right? :-)

> but
> with the help of people on this list I managed to make it
> keep working. Sad to see it go.

Yes, really sad.
My AS1000A is quite similar to this machine... 'Hope it will not die soon...

Best,
 Oliver