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To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net>
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 19:10:10 -0700
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On Tue, 06 May 1997 20:51:23 -0500 
 Chris Csanady <ccsanady@nyx.pr.mcs.net> wrote:

 > Just out of curiosity, couldn't we use a large part of the NetBSD/alpha
 > machine dependant code?  I would think that this would significantly
 > speed up a port..

...if you do that, you'll probably have to use a large part of the
NetBSD machine-independent code, too... since the MD code uses MI
facilities, while the MI facilities also rely on MD support.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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