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From: Fred Kleinsorge <kleinsorge@star.enet.dec_nospam.com>
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Subject: Re: Killer deal on DS10s
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 11:35:35 -0500
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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.





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