Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), wkb@freebie.demon.nl (Wilko Bulte), lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems Message-ID: <200103200458.VAA22633@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200103192344.f2JNiqg12049@mass.dis.org> from "Mike Smith" at Mar 19, 2001 03:44:52 PM
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> > Why is the AlphaBIOS support still around, if NT isn't? > > Because there are obviously paying Compaq customers still running NT. > > > Does Tru64 work with AlphaBIOS? > > No. > > > It seems that Compaq is either throwing money into continuing > > support for a useless console monitor, or that FreeBSD needs > > to switch over to using AlphaBIOS (uck). > > Neither. OK. Let me rephrase that. FreeBSD needs to switch over to whatever code supports hardware that is not nearly impossible to buy. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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