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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 1997 09:27:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Cc:        Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org>, "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.970813092601.20170H-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199708131138.EAA02444@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> No.  The "cheap" [CPUs] are incapable of running other than NT PALcode.

Actually, I've heard rumours that the current NT CPUs don't have
the fusable link which fixes the what's-it-called page mapping
blown. However, you still get them on motherboards that won't run
SRM.

Bit annoying the way you can get an NT CPU for $1300 and the DU
one is well over $4000, isn't it?

cjs

Curt Sampson    cjs@portal.ca	   Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	   Through infinite myst, software reverberates
Vancouver, BC  (604) 257-9400	   In code possess'd of invisible folly.




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