Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:52:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: cjs@portal.ca (Curt Sampson) Cc: murray@cdrom.com, chris@bb.cc.wa.us, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Alpha is this? Message-ID: <199711192052.NAA21627@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971119111605.5868K-100000@cynic.portal.ca> from "Curt Sampson" at Nov 19, 97 11:17:40 am
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> > % The Specs say: > > % DEC Alpha 21164 CPU 533 MHZ > > % DEC Aplha pc164 LX MotherBoard > > Well, it's a pc164 LX, of course. :-) (This is definitely nothing > like a multia.) > > > That > > could be either an AlphaPC 21164 (with only 1 meg of cache, but a new > > multimedia unit to make up for it), or just a normal 21164 with 2meg > > cache. > > The LX motherboard is the one with 2 MB of cache and SRM console > available for it. (The SX is the one with only 1 MB of cache and > ARC console only.) In English, this means you will be able to use NetBSD/Alpha as documentation if you wish to work on a FreeBSD port. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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