[rescue] Q: Are all EV5's made equal?

[Eric Dittman]

> > > A quick alpha question. I was looking on info on an alphastation 600 which
> > > I just got. It seem that teh eV5 (21164) can be upgraded to 333 or 500.
> > > Question is, are all EV5s running at 500 Mhz the same? Or are different
> > > families of EV5s?
> > >
> > > Inquiring minds want to know... I know htere are a few DEC gurus over here
> > > *cough*Dave*cough* so I figure it may be a worthwhile question.
> >
> > I'm not Dave, but I'll try to answer.  There are two different EV5s
> > available.  The 21164, and the 21164A.  The 21164 is an EV5, and the
> > 21164A is the EV56.
> >
> > As far as I know, all 500MHz EV5s are EV56s.
> 
> Are they pin/voltage comaptible? As far as I know usually the EVx and
> EVxabc do differ on the mnfg process only.

There's something in the back of my head that says no, but that could be just the
specific motherboard I'm thinking of.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net