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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD
Date: 02 Dec 1995 09:50:18 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: spfarrel@ellis.uchicago.edu's message of Tue, 28 Nov 1995 10:01:06 GMT

In article <DIqztv.DJ0@midway.uchicago.edu> spfarrel@ellis.uchicago.edu (Steve Farrell) writes:

   I don't want to be spreading misinformation, but i _thought_ i heard that
   linux/alpha could run dynamically linked OSF/1 binaries...

I've been told that it can.  I've also been told that there are issues
that Linux didn't address in the OSF/1 dynamic executables.  So, I
really don't know what to tell you.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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