From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 06:01:20 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA14922 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 06:01:20 -0800 Received: from inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com [16.1.0.33]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA14916 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 06:01:18 -0800 Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by inet-gw-3.pa.dec.com (5.65/24Feb95) id AA26810; Fri, 24 Mar 95 05:55:55 -0800 Received: from whydos.lkg.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA19313; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 08:54:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA07986; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:56:04 GMT Message-Id: <199503240956.JAA07986@whydos.lkg.dec.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whydos.lkg.dec.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Aled Morris Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:52:42 GMT." X-Mailer: exmh version 1.5omega 10/6/94 Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 09:56:03 +0000 From: Matt Thomas Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Anyone thought about a port of FreeBSD to the DEC Alpha processor? The > new Multia machine seems to offer good value for money hardware (166MHz > 64bit Alpha processor, 24Mb RAM, 340Mb SCSI-2 HDD, PCI bus, and Ethernet > for $3000) Not a good idea. The Multia does not have the SRM console which is required to get the Digital UNIX palcode or the OpenVMS palcode. Multia only comes with the NT Palcode. This mean you could not use the NetBSD port directly and would have to re-implement the palcode interface and page table / pmap and ... I sure it could be done but the effort would be better spent on the ALPHA PCI noname motherboard support (which are about ~$1300 including processor) so you could built a comparable system to the Multia for not that much more.