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Date:      Sun, 25 Feb 1996 14:57:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        john@gateway.net.hk (John Beukema)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha port
Message-ID:  <199602252157.OAA00298@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.960225194404.24553A-100000@gateway.net.hk> from "John Beukema" at Feb 25, 96 07:59:43 pm

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> I see Microway advertising its 300Mhz DEC Alpha 21164 motherboard 
> running DEC Unix and Linux.  A while back I remember some talk about 
> porting FBSD to this platform.  What ever became of that effort?  

Jeffrey Hsu and I were required to send our loaner hardware back.  We
had a running NetBSD system, and I was abstracting the clock code; it
seems that the FreeBSD console code relies on timers that have to be
detected.  I wanted to blackbox the kernel pieces so that a chip
detect could result in multiple devices being exported as a single
monolithic unit.

I still have my SCSI HD with all the code on it.

I sent email asking about purchasing replacement hardware, but didn't
get a response from the company.



					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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