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