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To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:40:49 -0700
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:35:19 +0300 (IDT) 
 Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> wrote:

 > Or rather, the NT version has just the ARC console/PALcode and the UNIX
 > version also has SRM.

It is not a matter of thich firmware the machine _comes_ with.  It is
an issue of which PALcode the processor is capable of running.

Yes, I think this was a really stupid move on DEC's part.

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