Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:30:28 -0700 (PDT) From: steve@blighty.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switching from arc to srm Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10004261025320.16474-100000@blighty.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004260853120.81953-100000@beppo.feral.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > You and they should note that Digital built some machines (I can't remember > exactly which ones) that cannot possibly run FreeBSD-alpha (or Tru64 either)- > there was, inside the chip, some address lines lasered out. This seemed to be > strange for a number of reasons..talk about gelding (cough) the lily.... Erm... I believe this is false folklore. I used to design Alphas for DEC and never heard of any such thing. There are some boxes which don't have OSF palcode available, which makes them effectively NT (and Linux, now) only, and I understand that some of the "NT-only" boxes have some system level tricks to prevent running OSF on them, despite their being near identical to systems sold with OSF. System level, not chip level, though. Cheers, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.04.10004261025320.16474-100000>