Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:42:15 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0 wishlist |
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Hi,
On Mon, 17 Jun 1996 10:20:42 +0200 (MET DST), Michael Neuffer <neuffer@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de> said:
> Did you ever try to boot off a PCI SCSI controller with a BIOS/firmware > for i86 in a MIPS or Alpha machine ?
Yes. Works fine.
> That works only with very few controllers/motherboard combinations.
Actually, the AlphaPCs have got i386 code emulation in software in the BIOS for exactly this reason. SCSI cards, ethernet cards, S3 video adapters... all manner of intel/PCI devices are in use on AlphaPCs with no problems at all.
Cheers, Stephen. -- Stephen Tweedie <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.
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