Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:12:20 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Robert Huff <rhuff@cybercom.net>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PALcode Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810150811420.389-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199810142159.OAA11561@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:44:52 +0100 (BST) > Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote: > > > Does anyone know what proportion of alpha boxes sold run Linux/*BSD > > instead of NT? It might be worthwhile for Compaq to put a copy of the OSF > > palcode into the AlphaBIOS firmware to make life easier for Linux/*BSD. > > Wait a second - that makes too much sense :-(. > > Are you kidding? That would make it possible for non-Digital^WCompaq > boards to run Digital UNIX (formerly DEC OSF/1). > > Why do you think they don't include it? You could only run DUX if you could load the kernel and without SRM, 99.9% of people won't be able to to that. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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