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From: Hugh Messenger <hippo@garply.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Roll-yer-own Alpha OSF box
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 19:01:44 -0600
Organization: Net Results, Inc.
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> 
> In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960215135251.27925D-100000@foo.garply.com>,
> Hugh Messenger  <hugh@garply.com> wrote:
> > Too right.  What suprised me is that the box is actually cheaper than a
> > similarly endowed high end Pentium solution.  And it'll run NT, Linux or OSF.
> 
> Should run NetBSD too... if I'm not misunderstanding what Chris was saying
> at Usenix...

Ooooh, sore point.  I couldn't get there.

Is the NetBSD port 64 bit?

> Peter da Silva

   -- hugh