From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 21 03:23:16 1994 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id DAA13799 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 03:23:16 -0800 Received: from hda.com (hda.com [199.232.40.182]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA13792 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 11:23:12 GMT Received: (dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.9/8.3) id GAA04306; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 06:25:13 -0500 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199412211125.GAA04306@hda.com> Subject: Re: Research applications To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 06:25:13 -0500 (EST) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Chuck Robey" at Dec 19, 94 08:13:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1228 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey writes: > > A physicist friend of mine, who is in research, tells me they just had a > crashed disk on their PC running SCO. He's seen me have my fun using FreeBSD, > and would like to do it too, but he has an i860 board, and must support > it. Could someone tell me if this is possible with FreeBSD, I mean, is > there an i860 compiler he could use, and could he get FreeBSD to talk > to his i860 card? I'd like to help him if it's possible... > A few questions: What is he using as a compiler on the SCO? This is probably one of the easier tasks for the SCO emulator, if ever there was one. I bet he is using a DOS compiler from microway, though. Is this the Hauppauge 4860 motherboard? Does he use the i860 only as a peripheral? There is a gcc i860 compiler, but the last I knew it was not of production quality. Peter (who once had the pleasure of working on a 10 i860 processor Alliant FX/2800 with 4MB of cache 256 MB of memory and a 45 GB HIPPI disk array). -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 ++++ New e-mail address. E-mail problems? Tell hdslip@iii.net