From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 15 00:13:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA15456 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:13:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15451 for ; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA05396; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:12:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:12:20 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Jason Thorpe cc: Robert Huff , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode In-Reply-To: <199810142159.OAA11561@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote: > 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? You could only run DUX if you could load the kernel and without SRM, 99.9% of people won't be able to to that. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message