From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 13 15:23:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03076 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA03050 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA00333 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Thu, 14 Aug 1997 00:23:25 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA00738; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:09:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199708132109.XAA00738@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: FreeBSD --- ALPHA To: jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:09:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jamil J. Weatherbee" at Aug 13, 97 00:57:05 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------