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Claim support / explain white-box Alphas.

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Wilko Bulte 2000-05-11 18:56:45 +00:00
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@ -50,8 +50,20 @@ OpenBSD, Tru64 Unix or OpenVMS for that matter). With the demise of
WindowsNT/alpha a lot of former NT boxes are sold on the second hand
market. They have little or no trade-in value when they are NT-only from the
console perspective. So, be suspicious if the price appears too good.
Known non-SRM machines are the Digital XL266/XLT300, the Samsung PC164UX
and 164BX.
Known non-SRM machines are:
Digital XL series
Digital XLT series
Samsung PC164UX
Samsung 164B
To complicate things a bit further: Digital used to have so called
'white-box' Alpha machines destined as NT-only and 'blue-box' Alpha machines
destined for OpenVMS and Digital Unix. These names are based on the color
of the cabinets, 'frostwhite' and 'topgunblue' respectively.
Although you could put the SRM console on the whitebox, OpenVMS and Digital
Unix will refuse to boot on them. FreeBSD in post-4.0R will run on both the
white and the blue-box variants. Before someone asks: the white ones had a
rather different pricetag.
As part of the SRM you will get the so called OSF/1 PAL code (OSF/1 being the
initial name of DECs Unix offering on Alpha). The PAL code can be thought