> From port-alpha-owner-clowenst=ucsd.edu@netbsd.org Fri Apr 28 12:38 PDT 2000
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:37:54 -0400
> From: Ted Sikora <tsikora@home.com>
> To: Sven Dietrich <spock@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
>         "port-alpha@netbsd.org" <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Is the UP1000 with a 21264 supported under NetBSD/alpha?
> 
> 
> The UP1000 comes with the AlphaBios only. It's was designed specifically
> as a Linux board. Only the UP2000 has the SRM firmware. It was designed
> to hold either Linux or Digital Unix. Similarly the PC164UX was designed
> for NT hence the ARCBios firmware and the PC264DP for SMP Linux.
> Unfortunately they never took BSD into account when building them. The
> PC models are designed very much like a modern Athlon board.
> The 164UX even uses the AMD 751 northbridge with the EV6 bus 
> much like an Athlon.

Isn't it rather that the Athlon board has copied the EV6 bus
from the Alpha.

    carl
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