HP/DEC/Compaq

If it is allowed to share, and if you wish, please share with me.
Otherwise, just forget it.
Don't know if the rom image is copyrighted or not?
Thanks
Jack

You mean like this one here ?

The Personal DECstation 5000/25 is a MIPS-based workstation. You are aware it's not going to run Windows, right? Forgive me if you already know that, it's just odd to have somebody requesting "BIOS" for a MIPS-based workstation... Is there a specific problem you've run into that you think later firmware than what's already loaded would correct?

hello smj,
glad to hear a quick response, did you mean decstation 5000/25 hasn't got any firmware inside?
If so, thanks a lot for telling me that. I have been looking for it as if it was there


Jack

All DECstations have firmware, but none of them provide the kind of window-driven setup that PC BIOS does. While there's usually nothing wrong with updating to the last released firmware, there's also usually not a lot to be gained unless you've run into a specific problem and found an indication that a different firmware release will fix it. By and large, the firmware on these systems does little more than load and execute software (from disk, tape, CD, or the network), examine/modify memory, dump the processor state, manage a few variables in NVRAM, and perhaps a few other low-level tasks.

Let me ask a different question - what do you expect to do with any DECstation firmware you can find?

smj wrote: Let me ask a different question - what do you expect to do with any DECstation firmware you can find?

I will pop it into an emulator called gxemul, it is not easy to compile. But it took me half a year or so...
Thanks
Jack

Really? It built out of the box for me on my G5.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Really? It built out of the box for me on my G5.

same here, not a single prob even without gcc

I actually once completed compiling it successfully, but I messed it up again. So it took some time again