Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:40:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>, Thomas Pornin <pornin@bolet.org> Subject: Re: Source of "processor correctable error"? Message-ID: <XFMail.20020402174015.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020402143513.A1006@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 02-Apr-2002 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:32:08PM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote: >> >> You might try NetBSD as well. It has the longest history of Alpha >> support, among the "free unices". > > But I would not say the best -- FreeBSD has. We were the first to have > shared lib OSF/1 support (and NetBSD allowed their to atrophy beyond > until they merged some bits from us), first to boot on 2100 (A and > non-A), first to support UP1000 and UP2000, only BSD with SMP ability, > etc.. NetBSD does do SMP on alpha btw. Though we beat them to multiuser by a couple of weeks I think. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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