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>From my recent studies of the alpha architecture i have come to the 
following conclusions and would appreciate it if any of you could 
confirm what i understand or correct me where i am wrong.

the alpha port won't boot using the nt flash bios.
the digital unix flash bios won't boot from an ide drive.
other than that I should have no problems with a
 21264A on a 164LX motherboard 

I understand the alpha port is definately a work in progress. but any 
suggestions on a system based on the above chip and board would 
be appreciated.

thanks.

Bob

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