[Info-vax] Alpha CPU revision & serial number, blank?

[Steven Schweda]

> You sure seem offended, [...]

   Nope.  Just reporting facts.  (Perhaps annoyed, but that's
a chronic condition.)

> [...] What is shown for your systems?

   My old junk looks much like your (better) old junk (to the
extent that I know what you're seeing, which is not great):

[...]
Per-CPU Slot Processor Information:
CPU ID         0.                        CPU State
rc,pa,pp,cv,pv,pmv,pl
CPU Type       EV6  Pass 2.2 (21264)
PAL Code       1.88-27                   Halt PC
00000000.20000000
CPU Revision   ....                      Halt PS
00000000.00001F00
Serial Number  ..........                Halt Code    "Bootstrap or
Powerfail"
Console Vers   V5.9-1                    Halt Request "Default, No
Action"
[...]

> I had no idea the EV8 ever made it into production, or am I
> thinking about the 'EV9'?  (Was there ever such a thing?)

   I'm unlikely ever to own even an EV7 system, so what did
or didn't come after that matters little to me, but even a
CPU which didn't get produced might have had specifications
which included info like the data you don't see.