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Date:      Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:09:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA
Message-ID:  <199708132109.XAA00738@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970813005434.290A-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Aug 13, 97 00:57:05 am

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As Jamil J. Weatherbee 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 expensive but 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?

There has been discussion of limiting/crippling systems to NT-only.
If this has been really implemented (discussions of hacking the actual
CPU silicon come to mind) I don't know.

Crazy, I agree...

Wilko
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