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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
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Subject: Re: Alpha questions... 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 10:09:02 -0700
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On Wed, 7 May 1997 08:06:06 -0400 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu> wrote:

 >    Yes, it does.  And for various political and cost reasons, we have
 >    no other choice.
 > 
 > Care to elaborate?  I'm very curious as to what the problems would be
 > if you used the OSF palcode...

Huh?  The problems are if you _don't_ use the OSF PALcode.  The reasons
for this should be mostly obvious :-)

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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