From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 16:29:04 +0200
From: Jean Mehat <jm@ai.univ-paris8.fr>
Message-Id: <200405271429.i4RET41Y006525@hon.ai.univ-paris8.fr>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] dead things
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About alef on sources :
> This kind of reminds me of porting Plan 9 to dead things...

Speaking of dead things, I got a few Dec Alpha Personal Workstation
from around 1997-1998, moribound but still alive.

Until now, I succeeded in loading a kernel,running factotum which asks
for a user name (but not for a password). Apparently connectil fails
to establish a connnection between the booting terminal and the
auth/file server.

I imagined that the auth/file server was ok, since drawterm succeed
(from a SunOs machine).

(The ethernet card is recognized as announced by a line printed by the kernel)

Any suggestion ? Anyone (still) using alphapc ?

jm