Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 04:09:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: scot@london.virgin.net (Scot Elliott) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha PC Message-ID: <199902050409.VAA16007@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.05.9902041449340.436-100000@kirk.london.virgin.net> from "Scot Elliott" at Feb 4, 99 02:56:52 pm
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> 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
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