Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 14:25:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> To: FreeBSD-Hackers@freeBSD.org Subject: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970506142039.11249A-100000@cold.org>
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Two questions... First, is there going to be an alpha mailing list I could subscribe to, to keep an ear on the alpha development? In about six months I plan on picking up an alpha workstation just 'for the heck of it', but only if I can put FreeBSD (in any form :b) on it.. The other question is, are there any plans to have digital unix binary emulation? Digital unix 'cc' will compile two types of binaries, 'sortaportable' and 'native'. Up to version 4.0 the default behaviour of 'cc' was to compile 'sortaportable', but now it compiles 'native' by default. I highly doubt the architectures are very similar at all, but I figured I'd ask the question nonetheless :b That'd seriously be a point in FreeBSD's favor if it could run DEC Unix binaries (since a BASE 2-user Digital Unix O/S and media (NO HARDWARE!) will run you $4900 alone--more users can run you up to $11,000 or more). Even if it was just the 'old' binaries, and not the new 'native' binaries -Brandon Gillespie
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