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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!mv!fastball.unimaster.com!cherkus From: cherkus@fastball.unimaster.com (Dave Cherkus) Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Nntp-Posting-Host: cherkus.mv.com References: <2b5qb7$oac@vega.info.isbiel.ch> <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (Karl Swartz) Organization: UniMaster, Inc. Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1993 20:49:38 GMT Message-ID: <CFvtus.GEM@mv.mv.com> Reply-To: cherkus@UniMaster.COM Lines: 24 droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux) writes: |> |> >Is there a BSD version running on the Alpha ? And if not, is there some |> >effort in this direction ? Not that I know of. It wouldn't be out of the question because many of the 3000/400 and 3000/500 devices (and the turbochannel itself) are the same ones as were on the 5000/200, and there is work to get netbsd onto the 5000/200 as we speak. In article <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl>, wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: |> Excuse me asking: OSF/1 is essentially BSD running on top of |> (sort of) the Mach kernel. Is there something special for |> which you want to run vanilla BSD? It's nice to have the source to the operating system that your system is running so that you are not 100.0% dependent on your vendor for bug fixes. DEC sells source, but it costs something like $100,000 for non-edu users, which is unreasonable in my book. Yes, I know that one reason it costs so much is that OSF is getting a big slice of it. ---- Dave Cherkus UniMaster, Inc. cherkus@unimaster.com