Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:57:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Seifert <seifert@sequent.com> To: jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q. Will Alpha FreeBSD be similar to NetBSD? Message-ID: <199708072057.NAA28406@eng4.sequent.com> Resent-Message-ID: <23351.870993512@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: <33E96ED1.31DFF4F5@FreeBSD.org> References: <33E957B2.ED20BA6B@jsackett.slip.rtd.com>
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Suggestions for FreeBSD/Alpha: ability to read/write disklables and filesystems, and run binaries of: Digital Unix NetBSD/Alpha Linux/Alpha ability to boot from both ARC and SRM (ARC sucks, but some boxes appariently can't run SRM. SRM is suprisingly cool, for firmware. online man pages, pipes, grep, etc. Looks a lot like Unix) ability to have more than 8 partitions per disk support for all the builtin hardware (last time I looked, NetBSD doesn't support PCMCIA, floppy, sound) support for ILP32 as well as LP64, to make it easier to port apps that don't need 64 bits. DEC's website has some info on this. Dave currently running NetBSD/Alpha
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