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Alphastation 500
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Introduction
The Alphastation 500 is also a very nice desktop machine that
is also rather powerful (provided it has a decent CPU). Alphastation
500 were the high-end EV5 / PCI based workstations in a dark blue
case.
CPU
The Alphastation 500 uses 21164 EV5 CPU at 266, 300, 333, 366,
400, 433, 466, or 500 MHz, and has 2 or 8 Mb L3 / Bcache (8 Mb
on 500 MHz version only).
Memory
The Alphastation has a 256 bits wide memory bus using industry
standard 72 bit wide buffered ECC DIMMs. It has 8 DIMM slots,
and memory is installed in sets of 4. The maximum memory is 1
GB (512 Mb max on 333 MHz CPUs).
SCSI Controller
There isQlogic 1020 based wide SCSI bus, early machines had
Fast SCSI interfaces, later ones are Ultra SCSI capable. A single
SCSI bus is shared with internal and external devices.
Expansions
The Alphastation 500 has 3 32-bit PCI slots and 1 64-bit PCI
slot.
I/O
- 21040 based 10 Mbit Ethernet adapter, both Thinwire and UTP
connectors
- 2 16550A serial ports
- 1 parallel port
- 16 bit audio Windows Sound System, in a dedicated slot
- PS/2 keyboard and mouse port
My Machine
Have a look at my Alphastation 500/400.
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