Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 14:08:03 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Message-ID: <199705062108.OAA21164@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Tue, 6 May 1997 14:25:52 -0600 (MDT) Brandon Gillespie <brandon@cold.org> wrote: > 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.. ...well, you _could_ always install NetBSD/alpha on it :-) (sorry, I couldnt' resist :-) > The other question is, are there any plans to have digital unix binary > emulation? Digital unix 'cc' will compile two types of binaries, ...NetBSD/alpha provides some DUh compatibility. It was used to bootstrap the port. It runs statically-linked executables that don't use the Mach traps. (If you're curious about _why_, check out the README in the sys/compat/osf1 directory in a NetBSD-current source tree in your neighborhood.) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939
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