From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 24 12:47:24 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA19980 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 12:47:24 -0800 Received: from LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU (LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.198.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA19974 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 12:47:23 -0800 Message-Id: <199503242047.MAA19974@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: from localhost by LAGAVULIN.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02587; 24 Mar 95 15:46 EST To: Terry Lambert cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, aledm@relay-europe.ps.net, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com X-Copyright: Copyright 1995, Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved. X-Notice: Duplication and redistribution prohibited without consent of the author. Subject: Re: DEC Alpha Multia In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:35:51 MST." <9503241735.AA09749@cs.weber.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:46:38 -0500 From: Chris G Demetriou Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Perhaps the BSD consortium could fund a development machine if we had a > > > volunteer to do the port? > > > > There is a NetBSD port to the APX architecture. > > 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. My normal suggestion applies: If you don't know what you're talking about, don't talk about it. Terry: you obviously have absolutely no clue about what Alpha platforms NetBSD supports or plans to support. Given that, could you please refrain from "informing" people with your "knowledge" about it? NetBSD/Alpha currently runs on all of the turbochannel machines. the EISA and PCI boxes are the next targets, and, from what i can tell, they shouldn't be _that_ much work. If anybody would like info on NetBSD/Alpha, I'm the person to ask; I'm the person who wrote most of the code, and the person who's currently maintaining and developing the code. later, chris