Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 22:48:40 +0400 (GMT+0400) From: Anthony Graphics <agl@mac.glas.apc.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>, rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950423223515.20174C-100000@mail.redline.ru> In-Reply-To: <9504201758.AA25719@cs.weber.edu>
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On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 11:58:21 MDT
> From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
> Cc: agl@mac.glas.apc.org, rcarter@geli.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Case for FreeBSD presentation docs?
>
> > > > |> 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The scheduler comes from the 1.2.5 ? ;v)
I was pretty happy about our new Linux box(ASUS SP3G NCR53C810,Mach32 DRAM,
AST clone) until I run into the following problem: when I'm doing
mt retension
everything else dies (I mean until the command completes the system
turns into Windoze box running in the DOS compatibility session)
So I'm now stuck with the question what sucks:
NCR driver in Linux
NCR itself (kidding?)
or the system in whole...
The previous server (VLB machine assembled from the parts of unknown
origin ;-) dealt with this simple task much better (with Aha1542C)
so I think the problem lies in the driver.
> box. You are not limited to NT.
^^ I think nobody on this list
haven't considered it as an alternative ;^)
>
> 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.
>
AGL
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