XL-266 install

[U. George]

Since its not either the noname, or the lx it, musta have been either 
the 150mhz (first one - jensen. Used Eisa kards ) or the 3000 ( i think 
also 150mhz, but fancy propiatary bus ).
It came with a NT arc as default. But u can ask ARC for the SRM console 
if you wanted to. It was sorta one way, as ARC knew about SRM, but SRM 
didnt know about ARC. It all fit in the boot prom ( or whatever ). Maybe 
SRM image fitted on the boot disk partition, which arc knew how to load 
- I dunno.
with more ARC releases that switch eventually did nothing, as you 
couldnt fit both images on the same prom. Eventually the switch went away.
Sorta like the functional "setting the time" via the SRM also went away 
due to space limitations ( to support various SCSI, or ide controllers )

Yup, with the newer SRM's you also get the latest PAL code. But wasnt 
that PAL code erased and loaded with the old standard ,works everywhere, 
"bread board" version that was publically available as source libraries? 
Wasnt all the other machine-specific PAL codes sightly different? And no 
source. And no license. And no real public explanation of the nuances.

Maybe you like SRM, but i'd like to erase MTA's, DKA's and some of the 
other "Dec" (ultrix, osf, vax ) lingo.

this is as i remember.



As time went by

Jay Estabrook wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:56:51PM -0500, U. George wrote:
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>>It was the same for the no-name ( 166-233mhz )  , and I think for the 
>>lx164 also .
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>I think you may be remembering that some platforms could only hold one
>console image at a time (ARC/AlphaBIOS or SRM, but not both); indeed,
>LX164 and several others were of this flavor.
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