Re: Multia/166MHz

["Dan O'Reilly" <dano process com>]

At 05:37 PM 1/2/00 +0100, Thomas Leitner wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
>
> > At 10:37 AM 1/2/00 +0100, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> > >On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Dan O'Reilly wrote:
> > >
> > > > True64 will run with the hobbyist license (I run one myself).
> > >
> > >Really? I heared that Tru64 5.0 has some troubles on a Multia ?
> >
> > Well, I don't do an extensive amount of stuff with it (it's a hobbyist 
> system,
> > after all <grin>), but I've experienced no problems at all with Tru64 5.0
> > and this system.  I run 64mb of memory and a 2gb SCSI disk (external, of
> > course).
>
> Sounds good. From some Usenet messages I had the impression that Tru64
> 5.0 cannot even be booted on a Multia. So I'll try to upgrade my current
> system from 4.0f to 5.0.

Keep in mind this is the hobbyist version of Tru64 (which may or may not make
a difference), and that the firmware in my Multia has been upgraded to run
VMS (it's a special release of the firmware).  Those 2 things may have made the
difference.


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