From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 12 13:06:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29107 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:06:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29096 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:06:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17693; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:06:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd017607; Mon Oct 12 13:05:57 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA21061; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 13:05:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810122005.NAA21061@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1end To: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 20:05:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, tls@rek.tjls.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <87ww695oe4.fsf@netbsd1.cygnus.com> from "Chris G. Demetriou" at Oct 9, 98 04:03:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > All the new alpha hardware, maybe. There exist systems (now old, but > some still perform pretty well) for which no ARC ever was (or really > could be 8-) made. [ ... ] > If you want a PC... buy a PC. If you want an Alpha, with all of its > benefits, you want either OSF or VMS PALcode. There's an idea... do Alpha's come with th VMS PALcode? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message