Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:38:49 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> Cc: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA Message-ID: <199708131138.EAA02444@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 18:41:56 +1000 (EST) Ada T Lim <ada@not-enough.bandwidth.org> wrote: > I believe this is a DEC marketing ploy - Digital Unix may test for the > different processor and fail on the cheap one, simply so they can subsidise > the cost of Digital Unix without making it look _too_ expensive. No. The "cheap" ones are incapable of running other than NT PALcode. Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: +1 415 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 415 428 6939
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