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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions..
To: cgd@pa.dec.com (Chris G. Demetriou)
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 17:43:50 -0700 (MST)
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> > Download milo & have a look.  The palcode claims to be the OSF
> > PAL code.  
> 
> It is, but it is _not_ identical to the OSF PALcode in the SRM console
> firmware in several ways.
> 
> At minimum:
> 
> 	(1) there are some interfaces provided by the SRM console's
> 		OSF PALcode on some platforms which are not provided
> 		by the MILO OSF PALcode, and
> 
> 	(2) machine-checking handling/logout frames are different.

	(3) The SRM code for OSF/1 requires 32M.  The Linux code only
		requires 16M(*)

(*) according to the guy here at the University of Arizona who did the
    Linux stuff.

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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