Date: Fri, 24 Mar 95 12:52:53 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: mycroft@ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, aledm@relay-europe.ps.net, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia Message-ID: <9503241952.AA10502@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199503241823.NAA23298@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Charles M. Hannum" at Mar 24, 95 01:23:41 pm
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> This is for the DEC AXP150. > > An EISA machine with an Adaptec 1742 controller; there is > supposedly no X support, and a number of other problems. > > Uh, hello? > > 1) As far as I know, neither the machine Aled mentioned, nor the > machine the original port work was done on have an EISA bus. Perhaps > you're thinking of the Linux port. He said "APX" which I took to mean "AXP", since DEC doesn't have an "APX" as far as I know. Sorry to disappoint you, but the Linux port (what I've seen of it) is a pure PCI motherboard port. > 2) If you want to know the state of that port, you should *ask*. And > don't ask me; I don't have much to do with it. I was basing my statements on what I had been *told* after having *asked*. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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