System Features - Compaq AlphaServer 1200 User Manual

1.2 System Features

The system provides a number of features that enhance its reliability and
improve its expansion capabilities, as well as facilitate hardware management
and improve security.
Reliability
•
64-bit Alpha architecture
• Error correction code (ECC)
on memory and CPU cache
• Variable fan speed
• Integral Remote Console
Management (RCM) function
• Internal sensors
System Expansion
• Flexible memory architecture
• Six PCI expansion slots and one
PCI/EISA expansion slot
• Integrated UltraSCSI controller
• Capacity for 10 internal storage
devices
• External ports
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Provides significantly better performance
than 32-bit architecture.
Allows recovery from most cache and
memory errors.
Adjusts fan speed according to system
temperature.
Enables remote access to system.
Monitor and detect internal system
temperature, fan failure, power supply
temperature.
Provides a 128-bit data path with ECC
protection. System memory can be
upgraded from 64 MB to 2 GB using
memory options.
Accommodates industry-standard option
cards such as Ethernet, FDDI, SCSI, and
modems.
Supports tape and CD-ROM without use of
an expansion slot.
Accommodates one StorageWorks modular
storage system, which supports up to seven
3½-inch UltraSCSI drives. Also supports up
to two 5½-inch, half-height drives (CD-
ROM or tape), and one 3½-inch diskette.
Two serial ports and one parallel port
support external options such as a printer,
modem, or local terminal.