[rescue] AlphaServer 1000A 5/333 - 21164 or 21164A?

Scott Quinn saquinn624 at aol.com
Mon Feb 8 18:06:42 CST 2021


I'm looking at the Alpha side of my DEC cluster - currently a 3000/300X, 
AlphaPC 164 and a AlphaServer 1000A 5/333. I got to wonder about the 
1000A - the docs say "21164A" in many places and the chipset is a 21172 
(the 21164A "enhanced" Alcor).

Wondering because the 21164A is supposed to start at 366MHz, which may 
offer opportunity to overclock this beast a bit.

Bigger question is if I can still play with the "big boys" as I managed 
to throw my back moving it around (and I did pull out all the drives 
from the shelf).

If no one knows I can either pull the heatsink or move it close enough 
to the console to plug it in and see what SRM says when I'm feeling better.


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