Subject: Re: DS 5000/200: should I get one cheap?
To: None <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/14/1996 21:58:45
Hi Jonathan,

You wrote:
   The 5000/200 is the first-generation Turbochannel machine. The CPU is
   on the basboard (unlike other TC DECstations where the CPU is a
   daughterboard, upgradable to an r4000 or r4400 daughterboard which is
   not yet supported.)

Hm, turns out it might really be a 5000/240, its not clear yet. Any
gotchas with them?

   There is no  motherboard video.  The video signal depends on which
   TC  framebuffer card you get.  The  PMAG-BA (cfb) is 1024x876
   sync-on-green fixed 60Hz.  The PMAGB-BA is 1280x1024, I'm not sure
   of the video rate.

pretty low frequency, thats ok. :-)

   It looks like there's a bug in the serial-console code for 5000/200s
   in the 1.2 release. (Either that or I have a 200 with a a dead port.)
   More on that later.

ugh :-/

Regards,
	Ignatios