From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 7 15:52:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13942 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:52:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13935 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:52:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03205; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810072257.PAA03205@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@nas.nasa.gov cc: Mike Smith , mjacob@sally.nas.nasa.gov, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:47:12 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:57:25 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Why we don't want to use the ARC console, hmm? > > Yes- I agree- except that it's possible that SRM will disappear > for newer board level alpha products. Ick. Are there any AlphaBIOS source licencees anywhere? I'm specifically thinking about whether it'd be feasible to commission some work on it to a) produce a documented interface subset for all us suckers to use, and/or b) make it more server-friendly. Just idle speculation right now I guess. We need another mole inside Microsoft I guess. Hmm. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message