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Xref: sserve comp.arch:35835 comp.os.386bsd.questions:5112 Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!mv!fastball.unimaster.com!cherkus From: cherkus@fastball.unimaster.com (Dave Cherkus) Subject: Re: PALcode Nntp-Posting-Host: cherkus.mv.com References: <GRUNWALD.93Sep12113432@foobar.cs.colorado.edu> <2700niINN8fr@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <CD9HsC.EIH.1@cs.cmu.edu> <id.H4M21.B7J@nmti.com> Sender: usenet@mv.mv.com (Rob Chesler) Organization: UniMaster, Inc. Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 02:46:52 GMT Message-ID: <CDDJq5.FMF@mv.mv.com> Reply-To: cherkus@UniMaster.COM Lines: 11 In article <id.H4M21.B7J@nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (peter da silva) writes: |> What happens if someone wants to port a third-party operating system (like |> NetBSD, for example) to the Alpha? Do you have to make do with the published |> PALcode traps, or can you get documentation on the underlying architecture? After reading the Arch Ref, I think you could port other operating systems using the published PALcode traps, and that you'd be darn glad DEC wrote the stuff for you. ---- Dave Cherkus UniMaster, Inc. cherkus@unimaster.com