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Re: Need terminology explained.

Subject: Re: Need terminology explained.
From: Maurice Hilarius (maurice@harddata.com)
Date: Tue Apr 4 23:11:59 2000


With regards to your message at 11:45 PM 4/4/00 -0400, Gregory Gee. Where
you stated:

> Now that I have a running system, I need to find a place that will explain
>some of the terms I have been hearing on this list, like:
>
>AXP - Alpha Processor based computers. Old Digital marketing term.
>Jensen - Old EV4 (21064) Alpha system
>UDB - Old Alpha EV4 (21064) system, "minitiure case", integrated
>components. Sold commonly around for essentially no money.
>EV56 - 21164 CPUs.
>pc164 - motherboard that was the first Alpha OEM board in ATX form factor.
>Used EV5 family of CPUs, 72 pin SIMMs, came in 433 and 500 most commonly.

> I was also wondering about my version of firmware. How do I find what
> version
>I have? What is the latest version? Should I upgrade to it? how do I
>upgrade?
>These don't seem to be mentioned in the how-to's.
>
>Thanks,
>Greg.
>
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Most older firmware is at:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/digital/Alpha/firmware/readme.html

Best regards,

Maurice W. Hilarius Telephone: 01-780-456-9771
Hard Data Ltd. FAX: 01-780-456-9772
11060 - 166 Avenue mailto:maurice@harddata.com
Edmonton, AB, Canada http://www.harddata.com/
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