From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 13:35:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA16918 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.iconz.co.nz (mail.iconz.co.nz [202.14.100.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA16901 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 13:34:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from news.iconz.co.nz (status.gen.nz [202.14.100.1]) by mail.iconz.co.nz (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA281970879716082; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:34:42 +1300 (NZDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news.iconz.co.nz (8.8.5/8.8.5) with UUCP id KAA17742; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:34:43 +1300 Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA21154; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:05:03 +1300 (NZDT) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA03380; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:05:03 +1300 (NZDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:05:03 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: "Eric C. S. Dynamic" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a number of random questions. In-Reply-To: <346E3F33.167EB0E7@transbay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Eric C. S. Dynamic wrote: > > > 2. I've heard that Alpha is now supported. Yes? Up to 600MHz? > > > > no > > you're thinking of NetBSD > > That's too bad. Supposedly only the kernel should care? > Has anyone expressed an interest in doing a port? > We were gung-ho about advertising a 600MHz FreeBSD Alpha machine > (not to mention running such ourselves.) > Perhaps the alpha kernel code can be ported from NetBSD? There is an effort to port FreeBSD to the Alpha (check out the freebsd-alpha mailing list). Unfortunately it appears to have stalled at the moment. > > > 7. Whatever happened to 'units'? > > eh? > > 'units' was/is a program that did unit conversions ... e.g. I vaguely recall that it may have moved to /usr/games (haven't got it loaded, so I can't be certain) -- Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... | I came, I saw, I stuck around"