From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 14:20:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05774 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA05765 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:20:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA21164; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705062108.OAA21164@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Brandon Gillespie Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha questions.. Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 14:08:03 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 May 1997 14:25:52 -0600 (MDT) Brandon Gillespie wrote: > Two questions... First, is there going to be an alpha mailing list I could > subscribe to, to keep an ear on the alpha development? In about six > months I plan on picking up an alpha workstation just 'for the heck of > it', but only if I can put FreeBSD (in any form :b) on it.. ...well, you _could_ always install NetBSD/alpha on it :-) (sorry, I couldnt' resist :-) > The other question is, are there any plans to have digital unix binary > emulation? Digital unix 'cc' will compile two types of binaries, ...NetBSD/alpha provides some DUh compatibility. It was used to bootstrap the port. It runs statically-linked executables that don't use the Mach traps. (If you're curious about _why_, check out the README in the sys/compat/osf1 directory in a NetBSD-current source tree in your neighborhood.) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939