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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:51:49 +0000 (GMT)
From: Scot Elliott <scot@london.virgin.net>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: alpha PC
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On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Does anyone know if it's possible to flash the newer firmware file
> > directly from AlphaBIOS?  DEC's documentation seems a bit lacking here.
> > 
> > On a similar note, DEC Unix 4.0d won't install on a 164SX - is it supposed
> > to?
> 
> There is a firmware requirement for, I believe, either 32M or 64M of
> memory.
> 
> One of the things the guy doing the initial Linux Alpha port at the
> University of Arizona in Tucson (my home town at the time) did was
> to get a modified firmware that wouldn't balk at 16M.
> 
> DEC basically has an appearance of performance requirement for
> Alpha hardware that 16M and DEC UNIX just can't meet.

Errr.... the machine has 128M;  the problem comes when I boot the DEC Unix
install CD... it loads the kernel which then panics immediately.  I don't
even know if the 164SX systems are supported by DEC Unix anyway - I just
thought I'd try it.


Scot.



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