DEC Alpha XL266 ("XL" )


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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME ODI
SYSTEM CPU DEC ALPHA "EV45" 21064A @266 MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 2 MB, 16 KB / 16 KB
RAM  96 MB, standard parity 72 pin SIMMs (Max. 384 MB)
SCSI BUS 1 x SCSI-2 (10 MB/s) NCR53C810 chip
OPTION BUS PCI and ISA
GRAPHICS AccelGraphics AccelPRO 2500TX, 1600x1200 @75Hz max. resolution for 24-plane. 
HARD DISK DRIVE 6.4 GB 5400 RPM Quantum Fireball
CD-ROM DRIVE Sony SCSI-2 4x (not in the picture)
NETWORK 10/100 Mbit TP (DE500 card) and 10 Mbps BNC SMC (ISA card)
AUDIO N/A
OS Windows NT 4.0
YEAR 1995
SPEED About 188 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS NT 4.0 runs quite well on this machine. It would require some more RAM to run Windows 2000 really nicely. This machine does not run TRU64 UNIX or OpenVMS, there is no SRM console firmware available for it*.
ESTIMATED PRICE '95  $15,000

History and other comments

I traded this machine for another computer. This is really a piece of heavy hardware, it probably has at least three times as thick plating as a standard peecee. I don't have plans to run this system so much because it has a big powersupply, being "only" a mid-tower box: 700W (at least it says so on the back of the box). In my opinion this is DEC style overkill. Funny or what?

I recently came to think of that this machine has the largest secondary cache of all my computer systems, my AlphaPC 164SX shares second place along with my SGI Indigo2 and my R4K based DECstations.

*=Rumours, however, say that there indeed was one available at some point in time, maybe a so called "FOR-DIGITAL-INTERNAL-USE-ONLY" release, who knows? Please feel free to contact me if YOU have found an SRM firmware image for this system...

Update: since March 2004, I no longer own this system.
 
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Last updated:  15-7-2004