Boxes Of Tat: DEC AlphaPC 164LX (Alpha EV56)

Digital AlphaPC 164LX

An Alpha processor based motherboard from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) intended for system builders. Capable of running OpenVMS, Tru64 and MS Windows NT. Also supported by Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

Specification

System Name	laurus
Motherboard	Digital AlphaPC 164LX
CPU	Digital Alpha 21164A 533MHz
RAM	512 MiB (512 MiB max.)
Floppy	Mitsumi D359M3, 3.5" 1.44MB
Storage	Conner CT210, 10GB UDMA-33 IDE
Storage	LG CRD-8400B, 40x CD-ROM IDE
Video	Appian Jeronimo Pro (3Dlabs Permedia 2)
Network	Digital DE203, 10Mb/s ethernet ISA
	Digital DE450-CA, 10Mb/s ethernet PCI
	Digital DE500-BA, 10/100Mb/s ethernet PCI
OS	HP Tru64 5.1b

System Information - Linux

/proc/cpuinfo

Processor information:

cpu			: Alpha
cpu model		: EV56
cpu variation		: 7
cpu revision		: 0
cpu serial number	: 
system type		: EB164
system variation	: LX164
system revision		: 0
system serial number	: 
cycle frequency [Hz]	: 533333333 
timer frequency [Hz]	: 1024.00
page size [bytes]	: 8192
phys. address bits	: 40
max. addr. space #	: 127
BogoMIPS		: 1059.80
kernel unaligned acc	: 0 (pc=0,va=0)
user unaligned acc	: 0 (pc=0,va=0)
platform string		: Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz
cpus detected		: 1
L1 Icache		: 8K, 1-way, 32b line
L1 Dcache		: 8K, 1-way, 32b line
L2 cache		: 96K, 3-way, 64b line
L3 cache		: 2048K, 1-way, 64b line

The Alpha EV56 (aka. 21164A) is a die shrink and improvement of the EV5 (aka. 21164) using DEC's sixth generation process (CMOS-6, 0.35 μm), a process that would be used for the EV6 (aka. 21264).