From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 13:19:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA18333 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA18327 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:19:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04001; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:17:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603112117.OAA04001@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Supported Machine? To: swift@flake.org Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 14:17:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199603102341.PAA29801@freefall.freebsd.org> from "swift@flake.org" at Mar 10, 96 05:49:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Will FreeBSD work on a DEC Alpha? The machine's info I beleive says it > will run DOS, Linux, and Windows NT. Before I spend $5000 on the machine > I'd like to know. Thanx. :> No. But NetBSD will. There was never more than a partial port (which used the Alpha NetBSD code and added support for the AXP/33, etc., PCI bus machines), and some portions of the console and VM code were ported when the loaner machines had to be returned. I have a tape (somewhere -- we moved offices), which I didn't keep good track of because I had my 2G disk with the Alpha image on it. I reformatted the disk Saturday because I needed more room on the PPC port -- sorry: you should have spoken up sooner. If you are interested in actually *doing* the port, I could spend the large amount of time it would take me to find the extent (I think it was the 3rd or 4th one) on my large collection of tapes. 8-(. You should get tapes from CGD of the NetBSD project, and Jeffry Hsu, along with my stuff, if you plan to seriously pursue this as a port (unless you want to hack it out yourself). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.