[rescue] Multia Question

[Frank Van Damme]

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 18:03, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > Hmm. I've seen 266MHz 21066 CPUs for the Multia somewhere.
> > Anyway, even if it's a crappy design altogether, it's still a cool
> > little playtoy IMO. Heck, even a SparcStation 2 can be useful for
> > whatever purpose they can handle. :-)
>
>    The difference is that a SPARCstation-2 is well designed.

Well designed? Except for one thing at least. As I learned from this list, 
there is something called nvram, a part attached to the main board, with a 
battery inside it - battery empty means you can't boot the box anymore and 
your mac adress gets reset and more evil things.

This approaches the Compaq hd-based bios hack :-(

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Frank Van Damme
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