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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!taco.cc.ncsu.edu!crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu!not-for-mail From: kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD Date: 25 Nov 1995 20:52:49 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Lines: 67 Message-ID: <497vn1$1fi@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> References: <491ie8$4tg@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <MICHAELV.95Nov23103449@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <495rp6$hc7@usenet.pa.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crazytrain.eos.ncsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Jeffrey Mogul (mogul@pa.dec.com) wrote: : : As far as I know, Digital has no official policy with respect to : either Linux or NetBSD. Cool. We are then on the same level as the Linux crowd, instead of being second in the minds of people. : : We have contributed support to both efforts. I was the internal : sponsor for our support of the NetBSD port, which consisted of : donating four fairly well-equipped workstations to CMU, who paid : for the actual port and provided equipment. I have also helped : a number of NetBSD people obtain technical documentation. Thanks for your help. This box that I am posting from is an Alpha box that was taken out of service here at NCSU, and the other NetBSD/Amiga guy here at NCSU got and put NetBSD on (he works for the University). It makes a really nice multi-user project machine, we are (2 of us) rewriting RCS and using CVS on it right now. Other works is also being done on this machine, like a port of AFS. I can't give a status report on AFS because I don't have permissions for those directories (NDA's and stuff. I don't work for the University). : : Meanwhile, several other DEC people have been assisting with : the Linux port, in vaguely similar ways (by which I mean that : I have only a vague idea of what these ways are). I do not : believe this has involved much support from Digital besides : the donation of some equipment (probably representing fewer : total $$ that what we gave to CMU for NetBSD, since the Linux : people got cheaper systems, I think). However, a number of : DEC people have volunteered their own time to work on the : Linux port. No accounting for taste :-). I used to live on a Linux dorm. Bleah. It was funny, all of these PC people running around bragging about their PC's running Linux, new machines and stuff, talking about how great Linux was. Who won the uptime war? The slowest machine in the program: my Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.1.1. Ha. If the VM bug in the amiga hadn't existed, my Amiga would have won. : : I also have heard that there is some support being provided : to an XFree86 port to Alpha, for both Linux and NetBSD. Sorry, : I have no additional details. : : Digital's main UNIX investment, of course, was/is/will be : for Digital UNIX, and that's the system I use myself (of : course, I don't have to pay for it myself). My support for : NetBSD has been motivated (in part) because Digital UNIX : is "BSD inside", and I hope that future innovations in NetBSD : will be useful for Digital UNIX. : : -Jeff On the dark side, I did see an advertisement for an Alpha box in a magazine today. It bragged about how Alphas run Digital Unix, Linux, OpenVMS, and Windows NT. Hey! What about us? Oh well, I own an Amiga, so I'm used to my system not getting enough credit. -- XCOMM -------------------------------------------------------- XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore CSC/CPE kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu XCOMM North Carolina State University kevinneal@bix.com XCOMM --------------------------------------------------------