From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 4 20:09:44 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20855 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:09:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20847 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:09:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11699; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:09:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd011601; Thu Feb 4 21:09:35 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA16007; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:09:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902050409.VAA16007@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: alpha PC To: scot@london.virgin.net (Scot Elliott) Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 04:09:18 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Scot Elliott" at Feb 4, 99 02:56:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Does anyone know if it's possible to flash the newer firmware file > directly from AlphaBIOS? DEC's documentation seems a bit lacking here. > > On a similar note, DEC Unix 4.0d won't install on a 164SX - is it supposed > to? There is a firmware requirement for, I believe, either 32M or 64M of memory. One of the things the guy doing the initial Linux Alpha port at the University of Arizona in Tucson (my home town at the time) did was to get a modified firmware that wouldn't balk at 16M. DEC basically has an appearance of performance requirement for Alpha hardware that 16M and DEC UNIX just can't meet. ...more Alpha trivia than you wanted to know. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message