Re: Everyone's SRM woes

[Alan Young <ayoung teleport com>]

W Bauske wrote:
> 
> Alan Young wrote:
> >
> > Peter Petrakis wrote:
> > >
> > > I agree. I "like" SRM. I'm confortable with it and have come to
> > > appreciate all the neat things it can do for you. Never is there
> > > a "BIOS" I have seen that gives you so much control
> > > and does it with as much grace as SRM console does.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this is one of the main things that drives people
> > away from setting up Alphas.
> 
> Exactly what survey did you do/see that allowed you to make
> this conclusion?

Unfortunately, nothing as formal as a survey.  It has been my limited
experience in helping some people in migrating from NT.  You can
probably fault me in that my experience is limited.

> > My biggest beef with SRM is   DOCUMENTATION.   As far as I can
> > find there is none, at least not up to date.  There's an ancient
> > one in the Compaq/Digital documentation archive.  But I've never
> > seen a current one.  Not even on the firmware update CD.  And
> > help <command> is too vague for some of the commands.  (If it
> > matters I have a LX164 with SRM 5.8-1.)
> 
> Every Compaq Alpha system I've bought that came with SRM had SRM
> documention. Never have gotten SRM documentation for API systems
> I have but since I had the docs for other systems, it didn't matter
> to me.
> 
> SRM docs are online. Search www.compaq.com for "console reference".

Thanks, but that really only helps if I have a DS, ES or GS system.
I have a PC64 and LX164.

Alan