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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!panix!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux Date: 5 Sep 1995 13:05:53 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA Lines: 29 Message-ID: <42hhvh$h5g@news.cloud9.net> References: <4233kp$t8p@hilly.apci.net> <MICHAELV.95Sep3212838@mindbender.headcandy.com> <42gn16$98f@klaava.helsinki.fi> <MICHAELV.95Sep5002229@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:928 comp.os.linux.advocacy:19143 In article <MICHAELV.95Sep5002229@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>, Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: >In article <42gn16$98f@klaava.helsinki.fi> torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes: > > In article <MICHAELV.95Sep3212838@mindbender.headcandy.com>, > Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote: > > >Does it say whether Linux/Alpha is a 32-bit kernel, as has been widely > >reported in the past. For argument's sake, the NetBSD/Alpha kernel is > >fully 64-bit, just like Digital Unix (a.k.a. OSF/1). > > Linux/alpha is a fully 64-bit kernel, quite like NetBSD and OSF/1. Also > like NetBSD (?) linux is also OSF/1 binary compatible, including OSF/1 > shared libraries etc. > >Just for the record, the answer to your "?" is yes, NetBSD/Alpha runs >OSF/1 binaries (that's how it was initially bootstrapped). It's just >one of a vast collection of well-abstracted compat code, actually. It is worth note that NetBSD/Alpha does _not_ currently run dynamically linked OSF/1 binaries due to undocumented aspects of the behaviour of the OSF/1 shared library loader, unless cgd has made a big change since I last looked. Perhaps the Linux code could be used as documentation. :-) -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@cloud9.net Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash. --Bo Diddley