[geeks] Tru64 licensing/availability...

[Eric Dittman]

> > The "a" does have an option to switch to SRM. 
>
> Aha. I don't know the "a" as I have a "au". I have somthing in my head
> that DEC made it non-trivial to switch the "a" to the "au"... I looked
> for that option in the AlphaBIOS of my Alpha PC164 board and could not
> find it. As the AlphaBIOS was somewat outdated I simply flashed a SRM
> and the NT loader was gone... 

The PC164 has room for only SRM or AlphaBIOS.

> > The earlier models also had an Intel controller for IDE, 
>
> Who cares about IDE?

People that have a later model with an IDE CDROM drive that
want to install something else without having to dig up a
SCSI CDROM drive?
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Eric Dittman
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