[Info-vax] (topic change to rx2600)

[Steven Schweda]

> Steven, you mentioned swapping cpu's in an rx2600 right?
> [...]

   I removed one (1.5GHz) CPU from a dual-CPU rx2600, and
replaced the original (900MHz) CPU in the zx2000 with it.  I
think that it's been about eight years since, so I make no
guarantees, but I don't remember having any trouble like
that.  Only the zx2000 saw a new CPU.  Perhaps it was too old
and stupid to care.  I have not moved a new/different CPU
_into_ an rx2600.

   I did find some evidence in my notes that that rx2600
still worked with only one of its original two CPUs.

   Note that my rx2600 systems (unlike the zx2000) do have
the MP, which may explain why my notes for them say things
like:

- - - - - - - - - - - - Live Console - - - - - - - - - - - -
***********************************************************
* ROM Version : 02.31
* ROM Date    : 03/11/2004
* BMC Version :  01.53
***********************************************************

which I don't see from the zx2000.  But, again, to me, this
looks newer than the corresponding data in the original
complaint/inquiry.  Whether it's significant is another
question, of course, but I have a general preference for
newer firmware.  (I haven't checked lately, but, so far as I
know, I have the latest for these "zx6000/rx2600/zx2000"
systems.)