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Re: prices on cabriolet



Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> 
> With regards to your message at 10:30 PM 09-21-98 -0600, Michal Jaegermann.
> Where you stated:
> >Maurice Hilarius wrote:
> >> 
> >> There will be a "crippled" SRM for running NT ( and Linux) and a "full"
> >> version for running DUNIX.
> >
> >Hm, interesting.  That means that this "crippled" SRM will have to know
> >about MS-DOS partition tables and at least about FAT file systems in
> >order to boot NT.
> >
> True, but this is what we have seen so far on "demo" DP264  machines.

Actually, I think SRM just performs some self-test and loads AlphaBIOS.
It still won't know anything about NT-related disk structures, any more
than AlphaBIOS recognizes BSD-style disk labels.

-- 
Bill Roman  (roman@songdog.eskimo.com / roman@songdog.uucp)   running linux



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