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Pyrzout :vm:<p>The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-we</span><span class="invisible">ird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/alphastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alphastation</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workstation</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/decalpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decalpha</span></a></p>
IT News<p>The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots - We’re used to there being an array of high-end microprocessor architectures, and i... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-weird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/03/the-we</span><span class="invisible">ird-way-a-dec-alpha-boots/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/alphastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alphastation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/workstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workstation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/decalpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decalpha</span></a></p>
GripNews<p>🌘 JP 的網站：AlphaStation 的 SROM<br>➤ 探究 90 年代 RISC 工作站的啟動奧祕<br>✤ <a href="https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-202</span><span class="invisible">5-03-30/</span></a><br>這篇文章記錄了作者嘗試修復一臺 1996 年的 Digital AlphaStation 500 工作站的過程。由於機器無法正常啟動，作者專注於研究其啟動過程，特別是 Serial ROM (SROM) 的工作原理。作者成功地從 SROM 晶片中提取了原始數據，並嘗試解碼和重建可執行代碼，希望能理解並修復這臺老舊的電腦。過程中，作者分享了他們在解碼過程中遇到的挑戰，例如位元排列和快取線格式，並使用了 Python 和 Rust 編寫的程式來協助分析。<br>+ 哇，這真是一篇技術含量很高的文章！作者對老電腦硬體的瞭解真是令人佩服。<br>+ 雖然我不懂這些技術細節，但我很喜歡這種對古老科技的探索精神，希望能看到作者成功修復這臺 AlphaStation。<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E9%9B%BB%E8%85%A6%E7%A1%AC%E9%AB%94" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>電腦硬體</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E6%87%B7%E8%88%8A%E7%A7%91%E6%8A%80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>懷舊科技</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlphaStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlphaStation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SROM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SROM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E9%9F%8C%E9%AB%94" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>韌體</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/%E9%80%86%E5%90%91%E5%B7%A5%E7%A8%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>逆向工程</span></a></p>
Rick Altherr<p>Took some trial and error but I managed to get current Gentoo with MATE running on my AlphaStation DS15. R100 seems to be making the graphics performance terrible. But it works.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/alphastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alphastation</span></a></p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Findings at my parents' house, part 3: Two AlphaStations. <br>They have SCSI disks of different sizes, and the last time I turned them on (2008), they were working perfectly. <br>They heated the room wonderfully, and the fans were strong enough to move the pictures on the wall 😆 <br>I haven't turned them on again, but they should still have NetBSD installed.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BlastFromPast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlastFromPast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BlastFromThePast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlastFromThePast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/AlphaStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlphaStation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alpha</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
Michael Engel<p>This <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/DEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEC</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/Alphastation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alphastation</span></a> 255/233 that I just brought in from my garage looks almost brand new and seems to have quite a bit of RAM... let's hope it also works! (yet another project...)</p><p><a href="https://sueden.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/alpha" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alpha</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/64bit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>64bit</span></a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a></p>
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