> I'm maintaining, remotely, a machine running DU 4.0B. Messages in
> /var/adm/messages identify it as an AlphaServer 8400 Model 5/3350.
> Doing some sizer commands, I noted that "sizer -c" gave "DEC21000."
> Is there any reason for this discrepancy?
The consensus is that early in the engineering development cycle, people
were calling the series 21000s, to distinguish them from 2100s. That
stuck as a generic name, even after they began being marketed as 8x00s
(x = number of CPUs, perhaps). These were called Turbolasers at one
time.
Thanks to
Tom Blinn
Sean McGlynn
Girish Phadke
Karl Majer (psrinfo told me I had 4 CPUs--not that helpful)
Miguel Fliguer
Jim R Jones
Robert Benites
alan
Hugh
Hugh Pritchard, M.Sc.
Mailto: Hugh.Pritchard_at_MCI.com
Washington, DC, area
Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 21:58:32 NZST