Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:41:14 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New kid on the block Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907091139260.20616-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <19990708225326.22B3078@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > You can kinda do this already, or at least you could You could use SIMOS
> > > to emulate Alpha hardware and you could run the FreeBSD/Alpha -current and
> > > get some real benefit from the diversity. :-) SIMOS btw, is an Alpha and
> > > MIPS hardware emulator/simulator. It's largely responsible for the Alpha
> > > port in the first place, hosted on x86. I don't know if SIMOS still runs
> > > FreeBSD/Alpha -current though.
> >
> > Actually, SimOS/alpha can't be hosted on anything except another alpha. I
> > bootstrapped the kernel using Linux/alpha (NetBSD didn't run on my 433au
> > at the time).
>
> Damn, there's that 'Linux hosting FreeBSD' angle again... :-]
Well, as I mentioned recently somewhere I was playing (with reasonable
success) with running the Debian userland under FreeBSD emulation a while ago
- does that count as the reverse? :-)
Kris
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