Re: New alpha..

[Bart Warmerdam <bartw@xs4all.nl>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:43:48PM -0500, Matthew R. Pavlovich wrote:
> I just got a new 500Mhz 21164 and a AlphaPC 164 motherboard.  I am a
> debian developer and will be opening the box up to other alpha developers
> for building/testing when I get back to school.  

Good to see more ppl running Alpha :-)

> I am looking for direction in regards to finding RAM for it.  I am getting
> conflicting reports from the web site and the manual.  One says FPM Parity
> simms, and the other requires just parity simms.  I want to put in a set
> of 4 64Mb's to start and later max it to the 512Mb capacity.  Also, I am
> trying to decipher when I can set the motherboard to use a 256bit memory
> bus instead of just the 128bit.  Any insight to this would be helpful.

I have a 21164 AlphaPC164 (SX) which takes plain SDRAM. Make sure you can
return them if they don't work on you machine though...

B.