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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW booting problems
To: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:58:14 +0000 (GMT)
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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
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