From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 3 13:49:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29102 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:49:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29082; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:49:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12227; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:48:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd012195; Wed Jun 3 13:48:40 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01096; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:48:38 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806032048.NAA01096@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: future of slpha port To: hsu@FreeBSD.ORG (Jeffrey Hsu) Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 20:48:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-alpha@hub.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199806030118.SAA22587@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jun 2, 98 06:18:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I was a lone voice in a room of Linux nuts, > but I perserved until the manufacturer that lent me the two units > requested the units back, at which time I had to stop working on > the port. A darn shame too, as I had made great progress and was about > to integrate the NetBSD pieces into FreeBSD. It just about broke > my heart when this project ended. It was a strange recall, at that. The recall was not from a technical person, it was from the sales manager, who hadn't even initiated a loan. I asked if I could purchase the thing instead of returning it, but the answer was (strangely) "No". I asked about purchasing a replacement several times, but the guy never returned my calls; a sales manager who didn't want to sell... very bizarre. After Jeffrey had the PCI code up, I made some minor console patches for minimal usability of "vi" (the NetBSD generic console code was... strange; it had a 5 line scroll trigger margin for use on slow bitmap displays), and had a NetBSD/Alpha booting to single user mode with FreeBSD's VM system. This was back before the huge set of changes John checked in for optimization and so on. I basically gave up trying to track the changes on my PPC at that point. None of my stuff made it back into NetBSD, unless Jeffrey forwarded the console patches. I was also very upset, since the request for the machine back came pretty much out of the blue, with no warning whatsoever. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message