From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 09:36:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA09746 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09740 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 09:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA19416; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:34 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604031731.KAA19416@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DEC Alpha? To: alk@Think.COM (Tony Kimball) Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:31:34 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604030857.CAA20946@compound> from "Tony Kimball" at Apr 3, 96 02:57:56 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Terry Lambert > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 22:23:09 -0700 (MST) > > > Is there a version of FreeBSD that will run on a DEC > > Alpha? > > There is a partial port. The loaner hardware had to go back before > it was completed. > > Yikes. That's much worse than nothing at all: Wasted manpower. > What hardware is needed to make a viable, living port out of this, > or has too much water gone under the bridge? Talk to Jeffrey Hsu (hsu@freebsd.org). I've been snowed at work and all my (now much less) free time has been committed to the PPC. I can't reasonably delay the PPC work; it's also loaner hardware, and it's much closer. I felt so guilty about the amount of time, I offered to buy the hardware outright; no response on that yet, though. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.