HP 9836U processor mystery...
Josh Dersch
derschjo at gmail.com
Sat Nov 11 23:05:53 CST 2017
On 11/8/2017 2:31 AM, Tony Duell wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Josh Dersch <derschjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/6/2017 8:59 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>> What BOOTROM version do you have in your machine? I have 4.0, I'm curious
>> if there's a later version.
> Mine is 4.0
>
> -tony
>
Found a doc on Bitsavers
(http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/9000_200/9000-200_periphSupp_Dec89.pdf, see
page 4-2's footnotes) that indicates that there were two variants of the
9836U -- the earlier with the 12.5Mhz 68000, the later with a 68010.
Apparently the processor difference wasn't enough to require a model
designation of its own.
Apparently what I want for my system, HP-UX-wise is version 2.1. 5.1
just hangs after loading the kernel (no diagnostics) with either
processor, I assume the processor board itself must have some revisional
differences. Maybe someday I'll track that down...
- Josh
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