From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 14 15:00:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA03990 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:00:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03982 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA11561; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:59:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199810142159.OAA11561@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug Rabson Cc: Robert Huff , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 14:59:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:44:52 +0100 (BST) Doug Rabson wrote: > Does anyone know what proportion of alpha boxes sold run Linux/*BSD > instead of NT? It might be worthwhile for Compaq to put a copy of the OSF > palcode into the AlphaBIOS firmware to make life easier for Linux/*BSD. > Wait a second - that makes too much sense :-(. Are you kidding? That would make it possible for non-Digital^WCompaq boards to run Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1). Why do you think they don't include it? Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message