From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 15 16:29:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAB16800 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:29:18 -0800 Received: from wintermute.imsi.com (wintermute.imsi.com [192.103.3.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA16793 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:29:17 -0800 Received: from relay.imsi.com by wintermute.imsi.com id TAA23513 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:29:02 -0500 Received: from webster.imsi.com by relay.imsi.com id TAA02508 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 1995 19:29:02 -0500 Received: from snark.imsi.com by webster.imsi.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA01809; Wed, 15 Feb 95 19:29:01 EST Date: Wed, 15 Feb 95 19:29:01 EST From: perry@imsi.com (Perry E. Metzger) Message-Id: <9502160029.AA01809@webster.imsi.com> Received: by snark.imsi.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA04894; Wed, 15 Feb 95 19:29:01 EST To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD for DEC Alpha Reply-To: perry@imsi.com X-Reposting-Policy: redistribute only with permission Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In answer to the question about Alpha ports: It might be heretical for me to mention it here, but since the question was asked generically of BSD being available for the Alpha rather than FreeBSD, and in the interest of open information (and since I monitor both operating systems), I'll note that the NetBSD port to the DEC Alpha seems to have begun to be checked in to their current CVS tree starting as of a night or two ago. I understand that the kernel work is nearly finished but still a bit shakey, and that lots of userland bugs exist. This is reportedly a full 64 bit clean kernel, with all that implies. (Awaiting rifle shots for having mentioned NetBSD here...) Perry