I just bought two refurb bi-Alpha servers 3 days ago, and I am givent the idea 
to
use them as share servers; for that, the best way and also most secure would be 
to
use Xen ...
problem is that when I search Alpha in ML archives, I mostly get 'alpha release'
answers, as opposite to beta release ...
Alpha cores are said to be partly Pentium-Pro compliant; SRM on my servers also
include several BIOS emulators to help detection of PCI32 and PCI64 daughter 
cards
... so I mostly think my bi-alpha servers could somehow be used as bi-pentium 
boxes ...
from that: would actual version of Xen2.0 or Xen3.0 be source complatible with 
Alpha
processors (I have CPUS revision 56, 533MHz, 4Mb cache, professionnal edition, 
and
could dump you compleet specs from /proc within 24h if asked).
If not, how long would the port take for the team ?
how long for 4y experience C programmers ? (let say a team of 3 friends).
I found those Alpha servers for very cheap; I now need to keep them buzy/hot, 
and
some society would need them to support an existing dedicated web server.
Gentoo and Debian user, C developper, knowledges in several ASM (PPC, 68hc11,
68hc08, ARM9)
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DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre (aka DoubleHP ) http://www.demaine.info/
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