Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 12:35:19 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> Cc: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.970813123445.8056A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <199708130841.SAA13894@polya.blah.org>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Ada T Lim wrote: > > > > I was looking at alpha motherboards / systems tonight when I noted that > > there are actually two different versions of the 500MHz 21164, an NT > > (&linux) version and a UNIX (DEC UNIX). Apparently the UNIX version is > > different and more expensivebut will run NT also (the reverse is not > > true). So what processor will freebsd-alpha run on, and Is the UNIX > > version actually better or what? > > I believe this is a DEC marketing ploy - Digital Unix may test for the > different processor and fail onthe cheap one, simply so they can subsidise > the cost of Digital Unix without making it look _too_ expensive. > > Ada > Or rather, the NT version has just the ARC console/PALcode and the UNIX version also has SRM. Nadav
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