From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 7 15:42:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB08737B401; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:42:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CD243E4A; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 15:42:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0030.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.30] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 189wIN-0001KQ-00; Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:42:44 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCAF9F6.3060EA32@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:40:38 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: David O'Brien , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppies for alpha/DP2 References: <20021107143753.V4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I had the loan of a 164SX that would do this, way back when; this > > was the same box that the Linux people were using for the original > > Alpha Linux port at Univeristy of Arizona in Tucson. > > SRM? I would suspect that this was ARCBIOS. No, it was SRM. I have a floppy with it on it, and I think it's still downloadable from their FTP server. The SRM was hacked to not bitch when there was only 16M of RAM in the machine; most SRMs would blow chunks, as distributed, because they knew DEC UNIX wanted 64M. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message