Subject: Re: SRM
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/17/1999 21:53:24
As Simon Burge wrote ...
> Erik Fair wrote:
> 
> > At 10:10 -0500 11/17/99, Andrew F. Seila wrote:
> > 
> > >Actually, you can have both SRM and ARC installed simultaneously and you
> > >can switch between them.  That is how my multia is setup - and AFAIK
> > >that is what you get when you upgrade to the current version of the
> > >firmware.
> > 
> > That apparently varies by Alpha model. Some can, some can't. Probably 
> > related to how much flash RAM they have.
> 
> One would hope that it's also related in other ways - I think I'd
> be disappointed in a purist's sort-of-way if an 8400 or other such
> serious machines _could_ load ARC anyways, even if the flash were
> large enough :-)

Hate to disappoint you: the 8x00 can run NT..

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