As Wilko Bulte wrote ...
> As Andrew Gallatin wrote ...
> > 
> > Anybody know what the heck an AlphaServer1200 is? Is it a scaled down
> > rawhide? I ask because a NECX is selling something called the 'Digital
> > Server 5300' with a 400Mhz 21164 for $800USD. 
> > 
> > According to some of the old DEC info, the 5300 was formerly known as
> > the 'AlphaServer 1200 for Windows NT.'  And according to some linux
> 
> A, a 'whitebox' Alpha.
> 
> > documentation I've seen, a 1200 is the 'TINCUP' variation of the
> > rawhide family. (http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/alpha/rh52-hardware-alpha-3.html)
> > 
> > Anybody know if 
> > 
> > a) SRM will run on a 5300
> 
> It could very well be that it does not. It is from the days DEC tried
> to seperately price NT and 'real' Alphas.
> 
> > b) NetBSD will run on a 5300 (or a 1200) as if it were a normal rawhide?
> > c) the 5300, like the AS1200, can accept a second CPU?
> 
> I will check this for you with my AXP-guru colleague. Will be monday before
> I can followup.

He will do some additional digging. There have been a limited number of
cpus that really could not run SRM. Most of the whiteboxes can be brought to
SRM using a failsafe bootfloppy. He started mumbling that he needed to
check some docs.

Stay tuned for more info.

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