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Subject: linux emulation
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The first bits of linux emulation for alpha has been committed to
-current, (largely thanks to the heroic efforts of David O'Brien).

The emulation is currently good enough to support running Applixware,
the compaq C compiler, and a few other random things.  Instructions
for installing and running the Compaq C compiler are available from
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/compaq_ccc_instructions.

The reason to care about the compaq compilers is that they generate
much better code than gcc.  Something like a 4x speedup is not unheard 
of with floating point intensive apps.

This will (hopefully) be coming to -stable fairly soon.. 

Cheers,

Drew




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