From - Sat Oct 23 16:37:49 1999 Path: reader2.news.rcn.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!newsfeed.direct.ca!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!lead.zk3.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!not-for-mail From: Fred Kleinsorge Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: Killer deal on DS10s Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:35:35 -0500 Organization: OpenVMS Engineering Lines: 21 Message-ID: <380C5787.648545E7@star.enet.dec_nospam.com> References: <7u0b9a$g1g$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3804AAC0.F299F042@bbc.co.uk> <38070F82.544D4D01@star.enet.dec_nospam.com> <1999Oct19.091252.1121@tachyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: fgkaxp.zko.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (X11; I; OpenVMS V7.1 AlphaServer 2100A 5/250) Xref: reader2.news.rcn.net comp.os.vms:248425 Wayne Sewell wrote: > > > Now that alpha nt is no more, can the srm for these systems be updated to *not* > be poisoned? Many of us would like to be able to run a real operating system > on them (not considering linux or any other eunuchs to be one). Now that there > is no more alpha nt to sell, why not do away with the negated system type and > release new firmware? Aren't most of these systems direct equivalents to > regular alphaservers? > I will suggest this to the FW group. BTW - on "some" systems (like the DaVinci, which was a NT-only AS1200 called the "ultimate WS") - you should be able to create a SRM console variable called: SRM_BOOT and set it to "ON" and it will defeat the poisoning of the HWRPB. _f