From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 27 17: 3: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B618514BF3 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA11276 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:03:00 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: current@freebsd.org Subject: State of Alpha support and Oracle. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8 and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha, tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know the answers) 1/ does FreeBSD-alpha support SMB 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha? 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent on x86? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message