Re: Possibilites on 164LX
From: Dennis Grevenstein (dennis_at_pcde.inka.de)
Date: 06/15/04
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Date: 15 Jun 2004 03:18:30 GMT
Ghazan Haider <ghazan@ghazan.haider.name> wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. I plugged in a second stick and it worked. It
> took 2x PC100 ECC sticks no less. I tried 2x non-ECC, 1x ECC, PC133...
Right. It needs its RAM in pairs.
> Its got Alphabios 5.7, time for some fun. Now to get a case, PS, CD. I
> wonder if doom/quake2 runs on it.
I can really recommend using SRM instead of Alphabios. Alphabios
did behave somewhat funny sometimes on my 164LX. SRM makes life
easier. Windows on Alpha is a dead horse anyway.
mfg
Dennis
--
"I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was
error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out. If there's an error,
we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes,
and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"
Tom van Vleck and Dennis Ritchie about Multics <-> UNIX relationship
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