Alpha AXP (was Re: MicroVAX 4000/VLC)

From: Enrico Badella <enrico.badella_at_softstar.it>
Date: Tue Feb 26 02:08:23 2002

Thilo Schmidt wrote:
>
> On 25-Feb-2002 Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >> Everyone I know who owns AXP runs either *BSD or Linux or OpenVMS,
> >> including me. NetBSD flat screams on the LX164.
> >
> > Nothing screamed on my AXPpci133 until I found enough old cache chips
> > that the board liked. There's a list of "approved vendors" for those
> > cache chips... they aren't kidding... I had to try parts from four or
> > five old 486 motherboards to get a set of cache SRAMs that would let
> > the Alpha boot. Much happier now. Wish I had 1MB, but 256MB is lots
> > better than nothing.

Last year I bought two AXPpci133 and after some trouble I managed
to get OpenVMS 7.2 Hobbyist installed. With an real DEC nic I also
installed TCP/IP on it however it is really unreliable even for
hobbyist use. For some unknown reason I could never run it with 64M
of ram with the DE203 nic but only 48M. It bugchecks frequently, so
I really prefer my old VAXstation 3100 which is REALLY reliable.

A freind of mine also bough one of these AXPpci133 and used it a while
with linux but it was a slow poke (spelling??) maybe it works well
only with NT (yuck) of Tru64 (never tried it)

e.

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