DEC 3000-600 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

27 Mar 2002

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  pat(a)cart-server.purdueriots.com wrote:

Subject:	DEC 3000-600

framebuffer card with a 3W3 on it, CDROM, 128M of RAM, KN17 CPU. Is the
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 RZ26 a 1G drive? And how clock speed is the proc?

	RZ26 is indeed 1GB SCSI.

	The DEC 3000-600 is a 175MHz EV4.
	Memory from 32MB to 512MB.
	Turbochannel. 114 specint 92.

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 What kind of OS's are available besides NetBSD or
Linux... 
	Does Linux support TURBOchannel?
	I presume NetBSD does ... but I know
	at least one of the free OSes does not.

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  Is there a
version of VMS or Ultrix that'll work?   
	OpenVMS Alpha, yes from V1.5-1H1
	onwards (i.e. almost any version you
	happen to have).

	Ultrix never ran on these birds.

	Digital Unix (now known as Tru64
	but probably in the middle of another
	name transition) did support them
	but I have a feeling that support
	was dropped in the most recent version.
	And in this case they actually pulled
	the support code, so it absolutely
	will not work.

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 Also, I didn't get a keyboard with
it and didn't see one there.  What 
kind of keyboard does it use, and can I
use a serial terminal instead? 
	I guess a PC keyboard (LK451 or such???)
	but I don't have any docs to hand. Almost
	all of these boxes will work with a serial
	console ... plug in and type 
		set console serial
	(otherwise it switches to the 
	graphical console partway through
	the boot and if all you have is 
	serial yo uthink it's died on you!!)

	Antonio