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Claim support / explain white-box Alphas.
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@ -50,8 +50,20 @@ OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix or OpenVMS for that matter). With the demise of
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WindowsNT/alpha a lot of former NT boxes are sold on the second hand
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market. They have little or no trade-in value when they are NT-only from the
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console perspective. So, be suspicious if the price appears too good.
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Known non-SRM machines are the Digital XL266/XLT300, the Samsung PC164UX
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and 164BX.
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Known non-SRM machines are:
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Digital XL series
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Digital XLT series
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Samsung PC164UX
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Samsung 164B
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To complicate things a bit further: Digital used to have so called
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'white-box' Alpha machines destined as NT-only and 'blue-box' Alpha machines
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destined for OpenVMS and Digital Unix. These names are based on the color
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of the cabinets, 'frostwhite' and 'topgunblue' respectively.
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Although you could put the SRM console on the whitebox, OpenVMS and Digital
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Unix will refuse to boot on them. FreeBSD in post-4.0R will run on both the
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white and the blue-box variants. Before someone asks: the white ones had a
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rather different pricetag.
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As part of the SRM you will get the so called OSF/1 PAL code (OSF/1 being the
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initial name of DECs Unix offering on Alpha). The PAL code can be thought
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