Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 09:36:16 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: isildur@guild.net, mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) Message-ID: <199912040836.JAA55763@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <14408.29267.776501.133049@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Dec 3, 1999 8:58:24 pm"
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As Andrew Gallatin wrote ... > The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that > nobody ever made SRM for. Like the XL266 and the 300XL. They don't > trouble us because we don't have them. But we don't have them because > they don't run BSD. > > And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios > only & to support linux. > (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) > I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it > anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site. > > It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM. No you don't ;-) ..... SRM is built and developed on OpenVMS/alpha. Over 3200 source & misc files in a single directory.. (I was once shown the builddir, that is why I know) -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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