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I believe strongly in providing support vehicles that allow you to help yourselves.  That is why I built or helped organize the following support options: 

Alternative CPU Message Board
Alternative CPU Mailing List
Alternative CPU Newsgroups
Alternative CPU Chat Room

Give all of these support tools a try!  I think that you will find them to be extremely useful and effective.  They efficiently help diagnose problems and provide quick answers to the most difficult questions.

Please contact me with support questions as a last resort and I will try to assist you.

The Alternative CPU Message Board

The AlternativeCPU Message Board is a Web-based bulletin board service (BBS) that you access through a browser.  It utilizes the most effective BBS engine on the Internet today.  Please check out the message board, post or answer a question and others will follow.

The Alternative CPU Mailing List

The purpose of the Alternative CPU mailing list is to provide a forum for the discussion of non-Intel Socket-7 microprocessors.  This forum is a terrific way to share information, post questions, and solve problems.

The Alternative CPU mailing list is a moderated list. This list is owned and administrated by John Schexnayder. Thanks go to John for providing the resource. This list not an extension of AlternativeCPU.com.

I watch the list and periodically answer a few questions, but I prefer to spend the majority of my limited time working on the site.

This list is a tremendous support resource. There are a lot of very knowledgeable people who actively participate.  Over 700 minds are always better than one. Enjoy!

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The Alternative CPU Newsgroups

Thanks to folks at RLR, we can all welcome 16 newsgroups that they have set up on a private news server as the latest resource available to the alternative CPU community. The following instructions came from Chris Reeves at RLR and describe how to access the news server.

Use any news software (free agent seems to work very well) in the "server" field, enter news.rlrnews.com in the "mail" field, enter your local mail server. That's all it takes. This works in any news reader that I've tested. There has been some problems with the news reader under Netscape 2.02 and before, but after 3.0, there haven't been any reported troubles.

Individuals can also email us directly about how to get involved. ts@rlrnews.com.

Here are the names of the current newsgroups:

cx686.amdk6.and.others
cx686.chat
cx686.faq
cx686.flamewars
cx686.games
cx686.linux
cx686.m2.mboard
cx686.marketplace
cx686.mboard
cx686.misc
cx686.os2
cx686.overclocking
cx686.utilities
cx686.win95
cx686.windows95
cx686.windowsnt

The newsgroups get a fair amount of traffic. Send the folks at RLR an email and thank them for making this resource available.

The Alternative CPU Chat Room

A live forum for the support and discussion of alternative processors all day and all night.  A Java-capable browser is required to access the Alternative CPU Chat Room.  You can catch me here late in the evenings answering questions.