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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: DEC Alpha port of NetBSD
Date: 4 Dec 1995 20:49:24 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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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.

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