Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 07:32:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode Message-ID: <199810151132.HAA03184@shell1.cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <199810142253.PAA02551@usr04.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > I have to agree here. If we are going to put supporting all alpha > > hardware above creating a real unix os then why dont we simply > > run NT? > > I think the same argument is possible inre: Intel hardware, isn't > it? I run on x86, knowing it's a limiting choice but believing we (i.e. FreeBSD) use what's available at close to it's maximum potential (for some non-Clintonesque definition of "close"). It is my understanding that much of the interest in Alpha as a platform from the user community is in the possible performance advantages. (I've heard that the principal interest among some/many/most of the developers is in dealing with 64-bit stuff so they'll be ready for Merced. Don't know whether this is true or not.) Why, then, would we make choices which egregiously (as I'm given to understand it) compromise that interest? Robert Huff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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