On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> Lord Isildur writes:
>  > 
>  > I consider SRM to be the way to go, and i think instead the convoluted
>  > hacks that things like MILO had to go through are the rsult of using the
>  > ARC/ALphaBIOS _instead_ of using SRM. Now that Compaq has released SRMs
>  > for so many more models and eliminated the need to buy the developer kit,
>  > i see no reason to consider ARC anymore _at all_. It was a cheap second
> 
> The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that
> nobody ever made SRM for.  Like the XL266 and the 300XL.  They don't
> trouble us because we don't have them.  But we don't have them because 
> they don't run BSD.
> 
> And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios
> only & to support linux. 
> (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) 
> I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it
> anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site.
> 
> It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM.

The UP2000 seems to be very similar to 264DP (?) but UP1000 has a new AMD
chipset. I have no documentation for it at all.

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