I have an Enorex system with a DEC AlphaPC164 motherboard, IDE drive, Matrox Millenium video card. I have WindowsNT and RedHat4.1 both on the same drive. I have an HP Laserjet 5L printer.
The printtool worked half way. I set up lp to print text and it worked perfectly. I set up lp0 to print ps through Ghostscript and had bizaar problems. It took an HOUR to print the ps test page, keeping the disk light on most of the time. When it finished, the system was hung. On reset I found the file system corrupted so bad I had to reload Linux from scratch. Ghostscript works fine to the X11 screen, however.
The network configurator could not even be activated. I use NT for networking.
Everyone who is interested in using Linux/alpha for number crunching should know of the paper "Linux/Alpha or How to Make Your Applications Fly" at www.linuxexpo.org/1997/after/papers/davidm/paper-html/. He has 4MB cache and can multiply 512x512 matrices fast. I have 1MB cache and could only do 256x256 fast. He does not say how you get the compiler and linker to precisely align your arrays with the cache. If they crossed a page boundary you would not be able to run fast.