Question about DECservers

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Fri Jun 28 09:50:37 2002

On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Eric Dittman wrote:

> > I seem to remember someone saying that the DECservers are basically a
> > Q-Bus PDP-11 system. Is this correct, or am I thinking of something else?
> > Also, does anyone know what they're based off of and if it's possible to
> > make them boot a 'conventional' os by changing their bootroms?
>
> The DECserver 500 and 550 are PDP-11 systems. The others
> are not.

OK, What are the 100 and 700 based off of, and can they be hacked to do
other useful things (ie run a different OS given the appropriate boot
roms)? Specifically, what kind of CPU / other hardware is in the box?

-- Pat
Received on Fri Jun 28 2002 - 09:50:37 BST