Re: successful boot report

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

On 07/04/2011 07:30 AM, der Mouse wrote:
> > There was two versions of the 164, the LX and SX if memory serves.
> > Only one of them was 'complete' enough to run VMS/Tru64, the other
> > was WinNT and Linux only.
> Well, this one calls itself an LX, and in the console, the os_type
> parameter claims to support VMS and Unix (and one other which I don't
> remember in detail but I do remember thinking, wait, how does that
> differ from the "Unix" choice?).  And it does indeed run NetBSD.  So I
> suspect the LX is the `complete' one.
Yes, it is.  We actually have one here still running as a logon server:

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 
2005, 2006
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (SPEEDY) #3: Sat Jan 30 09:31:42 MET 2027
        lps%speedy.ludd.ltu.se@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/SPEEDY
Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz, s/n
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 512 MB
(1896 KB reserved for PROM, 510 MB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 497 MB
mainbus0 (root)
...

-- Ragge