From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 4 18:54:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.netbsd.org (redmail.netbsd.org [155.53.200.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F1091521D for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 18:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cgd@netbsd.org) Received: (qmail 1231 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Dec 1999 02:46:26 -0000 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Gillham , port-alpha@netbsd.org, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd) References: From: cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) Date: 04 Dec 1999 18:46:26 -0800 In-Reply-To: Matthew Jacob's message of Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:09:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <87bt86ayv1.fsf@redmail.netbsd.org> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Jacob writes: > Anyone interested in this subject should consider purchasing the 'Green > Book'- the Alpha Architecture Reference manual (now in third edition). It > is absolutely indispensible for anyone working in this area. Actually, now it's the Brown Book. (And, before it was green, it was blue. 8-) I think the new color is rather nasty, but the third edition is more complete and correct by far than the second (in addition to the new chunks). i keep my copy of the brown version in my living room, and of the green version at work... 8-) cgd -- Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message