From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 2 14:36:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69AED37B41B for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g32MabYm006038; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:36:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g32MZDqa006031; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:35:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:35:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Thomas Pornin Cc: Rob B , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Source of "processor correctable error"? Message-ID: <20020402143513.A1006@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3CA8EADE.C11C8DF7@mindspring.com> <20020402002303.GH41357@cicely8.cicely.de> <20020402112528.A6188@gnah.bolet.org> <20020402110420.GI41357@cicely8.cicely.de> <00d801c1da37$50e313c0$0b64a8c0@becca> <20020402133207.A6601@gnah.bolet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020402133207.A6601@gnah.bolet.org>; from pornin@bolet.org on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:32:08PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:32:08PM +0200, Thomas Pornin wrote: > > You might try NetBSD as well. It has the longest history of Alpha > support, among the "free unices". But I would not say the best -- FreeBSD has. We were the first to have shared lib OSF/1 support (and NetBSD allowed their to atrophy beyond until they merged some bits from us), first to boot on 2100 (A and non-A), first to support UP1000 and UP2000, only BSD with SMP ability, etc.. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) Disclaimer: Not speaking for FreeBSD, just expressing my own opinion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message