From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 2 14:40:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail17.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1EC337B41D for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:40:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 6552 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2002 22:40:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Apr 2002 22:40:13 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g32Mf1v20908; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 17:41:01 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20020402143513.A1006@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:40:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "David O'Brien" Subject: Re: Source of "processor correctable error"? Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, Rob B , Thomas Pornin 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 02-Apr-2002 David O'Brien wrote: > 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.. NetBSD does do SMP on alpha btw. Though we beat them to multiuser by a couple of weeks I think. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message