Axp-Hardware Archive
Re: Various UX questions

Subject: Re: Various UX questions
From: Jurij Smakov (jurijus@theophys.kth.se)
Date: Fri Mar 10 09:11:59 2000


On 10 Mar 2000, Ron Farrer wrote:
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|
|The FAQ is outdated.. When it was last updated (I think) when Compaq was
|the only ones making boards. When deskstation made the Ruffian (called
|164RPX then) they had to make theirown firmware for it. So it does not
|have SRM, ARCBIOS, or AlphaBIOS - only ARCSBIOS.
|
|Go ahead and try the serial console, but don't be too disapointed if it
|doesn't work!

Thanks, guys. I'll try, but chances are really slim ;-). And I don't think
anyone is going to bother about providing SRM or Alphabios for those
boxes, since they are taken out of production.

Best regards,
| _ | Condensed Matter Theory Group | Phone : +46-8-7907210 |
| Jurij Smakov | Department of Physics | Fax : +46-8-104879 |
| | Royal Inst. of Technology |------------------------------|
| Graduate | S-10044 Stockholm | jurijus@theophys.kth.se |
| Student | Sweden | www.theophys.kth.se/~jurijus |



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