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Date:      Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:41:14 +0930 (CST)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New kid on the block 
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907091139260.20616-100000@bragg>
In-Reply-To: <19990708225326.22B3078@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:

> > > You can kinda do this already, or at least you could  You could use SIMOS
> > > to emulate Alpha hardware and you could run the FreeBSD/Alpha -current and
> > > get some real benefit from the diversity. :-)  SIMOS btw, is an Alpha and
> > > MIPS hardware emulator/simulator.  It's largely responsible for the Alpha
> > > port in the first place, hosted on x86. I don't know if SIMOS still runs
> > > FreeBSD/Alpha -current though.  
> > 
> > Actually, SimOS/alpha can't be hosted on anything except another alpha. I
> > bootstrapped the kernel using Linux/alpha (NetBSD didn't run on my 433au
> > at the time).
> 
> Damn, there's that 'Linux hosting FreeBSD' angle again... :-]

Well, as I mentioned recently somewhere I was playing (with reasonable
success) with running the Debian userland under FreeBSD emulation a while ago
- does that count as the reverse? :-)

Kris

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