Re: DS20L

["Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris debian org>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Maurice Hilarius wrote:

> >IIRC, there are some differences in the case design other than the
> >face.  If they kept the changes that I saw in their pre-production
> >DS20L's, they modified or replaced some of the things about the case
> >design that were weak points on the CS20 (torsion resistance and fan
> >attachment especially).
> Where?
> Same cheesy plastic fan brackets.
> And no additional metal re-inforcements are visible.
> If anyone seriously doubts I can post some internal pics on a webpage to 
> peruse.

I guess you missed my "if they kept the changes that I saw in their
pre-production DS20L" remark.  Apparently, they didn't, so...(I haven't
seen the pics of the final product yet).

> Seems they DID finally get TRU64 running on them though.

Uh...this wasn't a problem before...the only issue that Tru64 had with
DS20L was that Tru64 didn't recognise the new machine vector that
Compaq wanted their SRM to reflect for the system (read: simple one-line
addition and recompile).  There have always been ways to fake it into
running Tru64, though, by setting the machine vector to that of a DP264
(which is what CS20 uses).

C