From owner-freebsd-platforms Sun May 25 07:04:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA23159 for platforms-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 07:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.pi.net (root@mailhost.pi.net [145.220.3.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA23154 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 07:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kinchenna (asd27.pi.net [145.220.192.27]) by mailhost.pi.net (8.8.3/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA26218 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 16:03:58 +0200 (MET DST) Posted-Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 16:03:58 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 12:10:00 +0100 From: Guido Kollerie Subject: DEC Alpha port of FreeBSD To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Z-Mail Pro 6.1 (Win32 - 021297), NetManage Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-platforms@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In comp.sys.dec someone wrote DEC had donated Alpha hardware to the FreeBSD project. This seems to suggest that FreeBSD will be ported to the Alpha platform. Is this true? If it is then what's the status of this project? -- Guido Kollerie From owner-freebsd-platforms Sun May 25 17:53:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18862 for platforms-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:53:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA18853 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 17:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id UAA06457; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:52:35 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id UAA27267; Sun, 25 May 1997 20:52:34 -0400 (EDT) To: Guido Kollerie cc: freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 25 May 1997 12:10:00 BST." Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 20:52:34 -0400 Message-ID: <27265.864607954@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido Kollerie wrote in message ID : > In comp.sys.dec someone wrote DEC had donated Alpha hardware to > the FreeBSD project. This seems to suggest that FreeBSD will be > ported to the Alpha platform. Is this true? There is indeed an effort to port FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha platform. > If it is then what's the status of this project? ``Very early'' would probably be the best description :-) It will likely be several months before any fruits are seen. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info