Subject: Re: DEC 4000 model 710
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@asim.lip6.fr>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roar_Thron=E6s?= <roart@nvg.ntnu.no>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/18/2001 03:49:46
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 06:06:28PM +0100, roart@nvg.ntnu.no wrote:
> > The 4100 is a later PCI machine, and quite different.
> >
> > The DEC 4000 dates back together with the DEC 3000 (and 7000 and 10000).
> > It has a Futurebus.
> > Diskbusses are DSSI and SCSI (NCR 710).
>
> Well, it seems there are 2 different 4000:
> the alphaserver 4000 (which is described in the same page as the 4100)
> and the dec 4000 AXP:
> http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/archive/axp/dec4000.html
> which is more like what you describe.
> If it's close to a 3000, NetBSD should run on it too.

It has the same CPU and SRM, and that might be about it.
We can not expect a workstation like the DEC 3000/300 to have much in
common with a mid-range server like the DEC 4000.

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-Roar Thronęs