Re: Alpha Core 2 is available

[Sergey Tikhonov <tsv@xxxxxxxx>]

Stephen Williams wrote:

> Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
>  
>
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I guess there is no need to wait any longer. :)
> > Yes, Alpha Core 2 (Tosia) is available!
> >    
>
> Is this likely to work on an alpha PC164 w/ the srm console?
> I have such a beast running RedHat 7.2+ as a backroom server.
> It's very stable as is, but the software is getting pretty
> moldy and I'm considering bringing it to modern times.
>
> But it is a PC164 (old processor) w/ srm (to escape MILO)
> which is old enough to be left behind even in the alpha crowd:-/
>  
It is not that old. :) I am running AC2 on AS200/233 (ev45),
PC 164LX 533 (ev56), PWS 600 (ev56). All machines with SRMs.
There was small "qboot2" (~100M) disk available to check if AC2 could be
bootable. Try it and you will see. :)

Regards,
Sergey.
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