Subject: Re: Vaxstation/MicroVAX info
To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/23/1998 17:11:56
On January 23, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> I meant the monitor program EPROMs. The other are NVRAMs for sure. If the
> EPROMS would be EEPROMs, some kind of changes would be to easy.
> (server<->station<->micro licenses)

  Ahh, gotcha...

     -Dave

> ----------
> > From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
> > To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
> > Cc: port-vax@NetBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Vaxstation/MicroVAX info
> > Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 2:53 PM
> > 
> > On January 23, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> > > P.P.S. You are sure that they use eeproms? i think this are EPROMs...
> > 
> >   The machines listed below as having eeproms have some sort of NVRAM
> > (whether it's actually eeprom or battery-backed SRAM) for storing boot
> > defaults and such.  That'd definitely *not* be doable with regular
> > eproms...at least not without a lot of programming circuitry and a big
> > UV bulb suspended above the CPU board... :)
> >