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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!hermes.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news1!not-for-mail From: root@dyson.iquest.net (John S. Dyson) Subject: Re: anyone running FreeBSD under DEC Alpha w/ PCI? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Message-ID: <4ed4j4$aop@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin) Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine References: <4duvbr$6p7@sundog.tiac.net> <4ed6ac$neu@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 12:08:04 GMT Lines: 24 In article <4ed6ac$neu@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >In article <4duvbr$6p7@sundog.tiac.net>, >Stephen J. Gaudet <sjg@dcginc.com> wrote: >>Is anyone running FreeBSD under Digital's Alpha and if so which processor, >>21066, 21064 or 21164? Are you happy with it? > >> __________________________________________________________________ >>| Stephen Gaudet | Reseller of Digital Alpha based systems | >>| DCG Computers Inc. | and motherboards running NT, OSF/1, and | >>| 35 Otterson Rd. | Red Hat Linux at affordable prices. | > >Hi Steve. > >I believe you are thinking about the Linux port to the DEC Alpha. > Maybe, but this was posted to a BSD group, and NetBSD does have a working Alpha port. Depending on what you want to do with it, you'll probably get *significantly* better networking perf with the BSD version, and the system should scale better for running larger number of processes. John Dyson dyson@freebsd.org