Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:25:53 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Nathan <nboeger@getrelevant.com> Cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Alpha kernels Message-ID: <20000214132553.A17797@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com>; from nboeger@getrelevant.com on Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 11:49:00AM -0800 References: <38A85C2C.C66243B8@getrelevant.com>
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On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 11:49:00AM -0800, Nathan wrote: > or are the kernels larger for alphas than intel based kernels ? Yes this is a RISC vs. CISC thing. Kernels for Sparc would be bigger than i386 too. Plus the 64bit vs. 32bit ints also contributes some to the larger size. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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