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DIGITAL Personal WorkStation 

a / au - Series

DIGITAL  Personal WorkStations a/au - Series



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Feature Miata 433a/500a/600a - Series MX5 433au/500au/600au - Series Miata GL 433/500/600/Chill
Microprocessor  DIGITAL Semiconductor 21164 CPU 
Two- or four-MB optional SRAM Bcache. 
Data path width: 128-bits data plus 16-bits ECC. 
DC21164A (EV56) Alpha CPU 
Two MBytes of optional synchronous SRAM backup cache (four and eight MByte modules later)
Memory  32 to 1.5GB of ECC-protected main memory (SRAMs mounted on DIMMs). 
EIDE controller:  Supports up to four internal devices. (CD and Disk) 
CDrom Only supported on au-Series and Miata GL
Universal Serial Bus (USB) not supported not supported Universal Serial Bus (USB) with two external connectors
PCI  Five option slots: 
          Slot 1. 32-bit PCI (half-size) 
          Slot 2. 32-bit PCI/ISA  combination (half-size) 
          Slot 3. 32-bit PCI/ISA combination (half-size) 
          Slot 4. 64-bit PCI/ISA combination (full-size) 
          Slot 5. 64-bit PCI (full-size) 
Ethernet 100 Mbps (100BaseT,Twisted Pair) Ethernet, or optional 10 Mbps (10BaseT, Twisted Pair; and 10Base2, ThinWire)
Onboard audio CD-quality audio. 
SCSI  Six drive bays: 
          One 3.5-inch front accessible (floppy diskette drive). 
          Three 5.25-inch front accessible devices (half-height [1.6-inch]). 
          Two internal 3.5-inch drives (low-profile [1.0-inch]). 
Software  Windows NT Unix (also capable of supporting OpenVMS) Windows NT 
OpenVMS 
Digital UNIX 
Linux (not supplied by DIGITAL)

 Specific a/au-Series System Features