Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 06:25:13 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: chuckr@Glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Research applications Message-ID: <199412211125.GAA04306@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.941219200831.25871A-100000@delta.eng.umd.edu> from "Chuck Robey" at Dec 19, 94 08:13:03 pm
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Chuck Robey writes: > > A physicist friend of mine, who is in research, tells me they just had a > crashed disk on their PC running SCO. He's seen me have my fun using FreeBSD, > and would like to do it too, but he has an i860 board, and must support > it. Could someone tell me if this is possible with FreeBSD, I mean, is > there an i860 compiler he could use, and could he get FreeBSD to talk > to his i860 card? I'd like to help him if it's possible... > A few questions: What is he using as a compiler on the SCO? This is probably one of the easier tasks for the SCO emulator, if ever there was one. I bet he is using a DOS compiler from microway, though. Is this the Hauppauge 4860 motherboard? Does he use the i860 only as a peripheral? There is a gcc i860 compiler, but the last I knew it was not of production quality. Peter (who once had the pleasure of working on a 10 i860 processor Alliant FX/2800 with 4MB of cache 256 MB of memory and a 45 GB HIPPI disk array). -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267 ++++ New e-mail address. E-mail problems? Tell hdslip@iii.net
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