On 2003.05.22 18:16 Antonio Carlini wrote:
> The Alpha will be perhaps 2-3 times faster (at least
> going by the SPEC numbers I can find for related
> models and guessing a little based on frequencies).
Really? The Alpha has about twice as much MHz, but the 21064 is known to
need a lot of MHz per MIPS.
> Either OpenVMS or NetBSD would probably be fine for
> this usage (although be sure to get the NetBSD 1.6
> or so that fixed the non-fatal overwriting of
> part of the console flash ... I think it was the
> VS4000-9x that was hit).
Yes. The dz(4) probe routine in NetBSD prior to 1.6 (1.5?) modified some
bytes in the FLASH ROM of the VS4k9x. This causes a FLASH checksum error
at startup und thus preventing autoboot but everything else works. It is
save to use 1.6 and there is a MOPable FLASH ROM update for the VS4k9x
available that repairs this.
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tsch??,
Jochen
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Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 13:23:16 BST