From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 19 11:18:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13775 for alpha-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:18:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13754 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12556; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:17:40 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:17:40 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Murray Stokely cc: Chris Coleman , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Alpha is this? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Murray Stokely wrote: > % My question is "how do I know what kind of Alpha it is?" > % > % 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.) 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.