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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!vega.info.isbiel.ch!news From: droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Date: 2 Nov 1993 17:00:52 GMT Organization: Biel School of Engineering, CH-2501 Biel, Switzerland Lines: 16 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2b63o4$s89@vega.info.isbiel.ch> References: <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: inext.info.isbiel.ch In article <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes: > Excuse me asking: OSF/1 is essentially BSD running on top of > (sort of) the Mach kernel. Is there something special for > which you want to run vanilla BSD? Basically, I don't absolutely want BSD. What I need is an OS that will be used on a distributed-memory parallel machine based on the Alpha ship that we are planning to build. We need an operating system that could be eventually modified to allows the processors to communicate together through custom hardware links that we will design and implement. I would prefer to have a micro-kernel OS such as mach to reduce the overhead. It is clear that OSF/1 would be better, but can we have the sources of OSF/1? or is there a free port of mach for Alpha available with sources ? Nicolas Droux.