Date: 08 Jan 1999 11:53:45 -0800 From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) To: Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <87zp7to81i.fsf@redmail.redback.com> In-Reply-To: Murray Stokely's message of Fri, 8 Jan 1999 11:43:12 -0800 (PST) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990108111808.14838A-100000@pike.cdrom.com>
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Murray Stokely <murray@cdrom.com> writes: > A DEC employee told me otherwise [ ... ] DEC employees have also claimed that, e.g. newer 3000/300 firmware fails to netboot properly (when it worked just fine before the upgrade, and just fine after a downgrade to the old version) because of a hardware problem... DEC employees have also claimed that some Alpha chips are crippled and incapable of running certain systems (when at least as of the time that I left Digital/Compaq, that wasn't true according to all of the actual hardware and firmware engineers I talked to). I could go on about the list of things that DEC employees have done or said. However, that list above is things which I had knowledge of long before i went to work for them. cgd (former Digit, not speaking for them or telling you anything proprietary about them, and, of course, not hired by them to do anything related to Alpha. 8-) -- Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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