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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!pipex!uknet!mcsun!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for Alpha ? Message-ID: <wilko.752324344@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 3 Nov 93 10:59:04 GMT References: <wilko.752255896@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2b63o4$s89@vega.info.isbiel.ch> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 28 droux@info.isbiel.ch (Nicolas Droux) writes: >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? [del] >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 ? Ah, my curiosity is satisfied. OSF/1 is licensable from OSF I think, but please note that DEC OSF/1 != OSF/1. Digital has done quite some work to make it tick on the Alpha's. I suppose you could get sources at a cost.. What might be worth investigating is if there is some sort of educational licensing scheme around. Wilko My opinion, not Digital's.. -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands