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From: camattin@unity.ncsu.edu (Chris A. Mattingly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD
Date: 4 Dec 1995 22:17:55 GMT
Organization: North Carolina State University
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Message-ID: <49vs2k$qtc@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>
References: <491ie8$4tg@taiwan.informatik.uni-rostock.de> <MICHAELV.95Nov27233332@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <DIqztv.DJ0@midway.uchicago.edu> <MICHAELV.95Dec2015018@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <49vmsk$iga@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>
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thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) writes:
>In article <MICHAELV.95Dec2015018@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>>I've been told that it can. I've also been told that there are issues
>>that Linux didn't address in the OSF/1 dynamic executables. So, I
>>really don't know what to tell you.
>The work that Niklas Hallqvist (I hope I spelled that right :-) has been
>doing with emulations and the exec-family will no doubt make it easier
>for NetBSD/alpha to run dynamically linked OSF/1 executables.
The best thing NetBSD/alpha has over Linux/alpha for me, is that it supports
the old decrepid TC machines. Linux can't touch that.. ;-)
OSF/1 binary support is only secondary to being able to run netbsd at all. :)
-Chris
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