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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: DEBATE: BSD vs. Linux
Date: 05 Sep 1995 07:22:29 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI's message of 5 Sep 1995 08:25:58 +0300
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In article <42gn16$98f@klaava.helsinki.fi> torvalds@cc.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
In article <MICHAELV.95Sep3212838@mindbender.headcandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>Does it say whether Linux/Alpha is a 32-bit kernel, as has been widely
>reported in the past. For argument's sake, the NetBSD/Alpha kernel is
>fully 64-bit, just like Digital Unix (a.k.a. OSF/1).
Linux/alpha is a fully 64-bit kernel, quite like NetBSD and OSF/1. Also
like NetBSD (?) linux is also OSF/1 binary compatible, including OSF/1
shared libraries etc.
Just for the record, the answer to your "?" is yes, NetBSD/Alpha runs
OSF/1 binaries (that's how it was initially bootstrapped). It's just
one of a vast collection of well-abstracted compat code, actually.
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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