As Jon Lindgren wrote ...
> On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Ted Lemon wrote:
> 
> > 
> > SRM is the boot monitor - the thing that you type commands to before
> > the operating system is running.   When it starts up, you'll see that
> > it actually prints SRM followed by a version number.   Assuming you
> > have SRM on your Alpha, of course - there's another boot monitor for
> > booting Windows NT, whose name escapes me at the moment.   If you have
> > that, then you unfortunately can't boot NetBSD.
> 
> That's ARC - I believe that's what Linux uses to boot as well.

Correct, that is what Linux uses. There is (on the newer machines) als 
something called AlphaBIOS (again for NT).

> I forgot to mention that - since the SRM is stored in flash, it can be

On almost all machines it is flash, but in some of the older ones it
is UV EPROM.

> upgraded/overwritten by other firmware.  The only two which exist AFAIK
> are the SRM and ARC.

& AlphaBIOS ;-)

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