Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:17:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: swift@flake.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supported Machine? Message-ID: <199603112117.OAA04001@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199603102341.PAA29801@freefall.freebsd.org> from "swift@flake.org" at Mar 10, 96 05:49:37 pm
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> Will FreeBSD work on a DEC Alpha? The machine's info I beleive says it > will run DOS, Linux, and Windows NT. Before I spend $5000 on the machine > I'd like to know. Thanx. :> No. But NetBSD will. There was never more than a partial port (which used the Alpha NetBSD code and added support for the AXP/33, etc., PCI bus machines), and some portions of the console and VM code were ported when the loaner machines had to be returned. I have a tape (somewhere -- we moved offices), which I didn't keep good track of because I had my 2G disk with the Alpha image on it. I reformatted the disk Saturday because I needed more room on the PPC port -- sorry: you should have spoken up sooner. If you are interested in actually *doing* the port, I could spend the large amount of time it would take me to find the extent (I think it was the 3rd or 4th one) on my large collection of tapes. 8-(. You should get tapes from CGD of the NetBSD project, and Jeffry Hsu, along with my stuff, if you plan to seriously pursue this as a port (unless you want to hack it out yourself). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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