From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 11:10:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA04240 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:10:02 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA04228 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 11:10:00 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA25719; Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:58:21 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504201758.AA25719@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:58:21 MDT Cc: agl@mac.glas.apc.org, rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504201147.GAA18141@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 20, 95 06:47:46 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > |> work on the price of the WS vs the Price of a good PC > > ^^ > > AXP PCI 33 board costs approx 1100 USD with 166 mhz Alpha in the States > > And OSF/1 costs over $1500 (or rather, the price difference for OSF/1 is > over $1500). > > Since you're pretty much stuck with NT for your AXP PCI 33 if you want to > benefit from the price, I class it as a PC rather than a WS. Hopefully > NetBSD will change that. My neighbor (well, 5 minutes, anyway) is doing the Linux port to that box. You are not limited to NT. Neither FreeBSD nor NetBSD is poised to port easily, even though NetBSD has an Alpha port, since neither system has dealt with the issue of a generic bus attach mechanism. There was some argument recently, actually that this type of thing should be avoided -- I think this is probably a bad idea. I was recently involved in some NetBSD discussions with, among others, Charles. As usual, I wanted a more radical change than people were willing to buy off on initially. 8-). NetBSD will be moving in the right direction, anyway. I think all it would take is one architecture port to force the issue for FreeBSD. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.