System Features
System Features
Summary
This section describes the features provided by the system.
Features
The following table lists the features of the system:
Feature
Description
64-bit Alpha AXP
RISC architecture
The 64-bit architecture provides significant
performance advantages over 32-bit
architectures, especially in the areas of
memory and cache bandwidth.
Flexible memory
architecture
You can upgrade the system memory from
16 megabytes (M bytes) to 128M bytes
using memory options (see the section
entitled Internal Storage Options ).
Six EISA
expansion slots
The extended industry standard
architecture (EISA) slots allow you
to include up to six industry standard
architecture (ISA) or EISA option boards.
Standard option boards included with the
system provide the following features:
•
Super video graphics array (SVGA)
video adapter
•
ThinWire™ and 10BASE-T Ethernet
connection capabilities
•
Small computer system interface
(SCSI) storage device connection
capabilities
Other option boards provide different
capabilities (see the section entitled
Internal Storage Options ).
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