[rescue] DECstation 5000

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Tue Jul 16 14:36:09 CDT 2002


> NT was developed on MIPS magnums, which were a reference design produced
> by a partnership between MIPS and M$ (yup M$ actually did part of the HW
> design...). They were the machines that were supposed to get the ARC going
> until manufacturers could get their own designs on the market, I think
> only Acer and Olivetti did release actual machines on the field (EISA R4K
> based systems).

The early Alphas had ARCBIOS for loading NT, later to be replaced
by AlphaBIOS.
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