Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:06:08 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Borg SRM? Message-ID: <20001209100608.A5607@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200012090535.WAA06843@usr08.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:35:17AM %2B0000 References: <90rtam$1r30$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <200012090535.WAA06843@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:35:17AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Are there systems recently manufactured, for which SRM is not > > > available? > > > > No. > > I was under the impression that there were a lot of Alpha > systems without SRM capability to be had for very cheap, > now that they won't run NT, what with there not being an > Alpha NT to run. Most of the ones on OnSale and eBay fall > into this category. Generally speaking I think you are refering to the PC-like Alpha XL and XLT machines. These only have ARC/AlphaBIOS because they were designed & mfgd by DEC's PC division. There is a second group of machines that have hacked-SROM code that makes them unusable with VMS/Tru64. These are the white-box variants of the fully-capable Alphas that can do T64/VMS. These have SRM available. The white ones are cheaper. And FreeBSD can run on both white and full-blown (blue) boxes because FreeBSD understands the SROM hack. See the source code for more info. > pretty current, or there wouldn't be qestions about MILO > and ARC still being posted to the -alpha list... if they > weren't an issue, then the questions would have already > faded away. Instead, it seems to me that the people > asking the questions are being beaten away with a stick. > Intimidating people into not asking is not the same as > them not asking on their own. ARC/AlphaBIOS-only machines are boat anchors unless used with Linux. As we all know Linux is not everybodies' favorite. Hence the call fro FreeBSD on them ;-) -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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