Just to clear up any confusion, I don't have any knowledge about this
particular machine.  My comment addresses the general issue instead of
a specific machine.

Dave Cherkus writes:
|> 
|> |>                                                      I have trouble
|> |> imagining what the hardware difference could be between an ARC machine
|> |> and an SRM machine, and if there's no hardware difference, well, then
|> |> there's no reason it can't run either.
|> 
|> I imagine you haven't tried to use Digital's products before.  They can
|> and do intentionally cripple machines so they will only boot the ARC
|> console.  Since we need the SRM (the ARC boot spec is unpublished, and
|> the ARC doesn't have OSF/1 style PALcode), you can't use BSD on an ARC
|> machine.
|> 
|> Search the archives of this list for the messy history.
|> 
|> PS: You can use Linux on this machine because Digital provides the MILO
|> binary image that can boot a Linux kernel and it contains the OSF/1 PAL
|> code as well...

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