From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 9: 8:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5335037B424 for ; Sun, 27 May 2001 09:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leclercn@videotron.ca) Received: from atom.quanta.ca ([24.201.45.238]) by VL-MS-MR003.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GE04U904.LSG; Sun, 27 May 2001 12:08:33 -0400 Received: from videotron.ca ([192.168.56.40]) by atom.quanta.ca (8.12.0.Beta7/8.12.0.Beta7) with ESMTP id f4RG8cUv000907; Sun, 27 May 2001 12:08:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3B112686.60809@videotron.ca> Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:08:38 -0400 From: Normand Leclerc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Richards Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, diskman@kc.rr.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Alpha PC164SX References: <3B111F58.000007.75752@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Sorry to bug in, I was told by customer service of Tru64 that 164sx isn't supported... True or not? I don't know.... Normand Leclerc leclercn@videotron.ca Michael Richards wrote: >> I'll just go ahead and swing over to Tru64. It appears to be well >> supported and there appears to be more software dedicated >> specifically for it and the alpha. Don't get me wrong, I don't >> have anything against the FREE movement but I generally have the >> impression, if its free odds are you don't want it [;-) Tru64 is >> $75 well invested I feel. > > > Tru64 is probably a good idea for an individual who is only > interested in _running_ a system, not playing with it. Bear in mind > of course this is a personal license. This personal license would > cost me $130CAD but a 5 user commercial license for Tru64 would cost > me $7800CAD. FreeBSD on the other hand will cost me only some spare > time. > > -Michael > _________________________________________________________________ > http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message