Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:55:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compaq and FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910211150470.40099-100000@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910211004500.47088-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Did I miss this on this list somehow? Compaq is going to offer FreeBSD on > the Alpha? Wouldn't that support a direct competition against Digital > Unix? > > http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/ No, they're giving account access to an alpha running FreeBSD (and an intel SMP machine) so you can "check it out" for free. It is still a very cool thing for them to do, since they _don't_ sell it on their systems. This was posted on -advocacy yesterday, FWIW. According to one of the compaq guys responsible for this project (Michael Waite), who posted on DDN, they're working on Alpha SMP support - so it looks like there is at least some internal compaq support for FreeBSD. This is great! :) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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