28 Jun
2002
28 Jun
'02
11:46 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh(a)aracnet.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 05:03 PM
Subject: Re: Question about DECservers
The 100 sports an MC68000 CPU, mops it's firmware, and has line drivers that
may (haven't verified myself) provide modem control as well. I looked
inside my 100 for a few minutes. Someone said they might have the tech
reference for it, but I never heard back if it was found or not and I
haven't persued it.
OK, What are
the 100 and 700 based off of, and can they be hacked to do
other useful things (ie run a different OS given the appropriate boot
roms)? Specifically, what kind of CPU / other hardware is in the box?
-- Pat
IIRC, the 100 _must_ be netbooted, and the 700 might have to be (I believe
it came in two flavors, one of which doesn't need to be netbooted). I've
never heard of anyone useing these for anything other than their original
purpose.
I'm not sure, but I think you can use the 700 as a console server once
you've gotten it to load its software.
The 100 is LAT-only. Not a problem if you plug it in to a VAXherd, but it
might be a limiting factor if you want to use it in a non-VMS application.
Zane
Bob