Subject: Re: ARC Firmware?
To: Ted Lemon <mellon@hoffman.vix.com>
From: Carl Shapiro <samsara@panix.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/06/1997 19:33:51
> Possible, but unlikely.   I was unable to find any evidence of such a
> bit, or any OSF/1 behaviour that such a bit would disable.   And many
> supposedly NT-only processors will run SRM - the P6, for example, is
> documented as NT-only.   I think the actual problem is a bug in SRM
> that the P7 processor tweaks - there are several documented
> differences between the P6 and P7.

This is documented.

All of the 21164's with a -Pn designation are the "NT only" versions of the
21164.  However, it wasn't untill the -P7 that the "NT only" nature of the
"NT only" processors began to be enforced.


Carl