[rescue] Multia Question

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Frank Van Damme 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.

That's a problem on many, many other systems as well.

Peace...  Sridhar