> 
> > > The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go
> > > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms
> > > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more
> > > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that
> > > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very
> > > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on
> > > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not
> > > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet.
> > 
> > If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd 
> > love to hear it.  They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO 
> > code for their systems.
> 
> Nope, but I can't speak for their choices or business model. Do they have
> a machine that is an absolute *must have* for *BSD?

The UP1000 and UP2000 motherboards are single and dual EV6 Tsunami 
boards.  They're what you'll find in almost all of the 
non-Compaq-labelled sysems, since API are the only Alpha bare board 
supplier in the marketplace.

I would consider both of these boards "must haves" at some stage, yes, or 
we will end up in the situation where we only run on a subset of the 
Compaq-branded Alpha systems, and none of the clones.  IMO, that'd be bad.
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