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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Roll-yer-own Alpha OSF box Date: 25 Feb 1996 01:13:08 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4god34$8hh@web.nmti.com> References: <31227482.31DF@garply.com> <Pine.OSF.3.91.960215135251.27925D-100000@foo.garply.com> <4gg96c$195@zuul.nmti.com> <312D11F8.794B@garply.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.osf.osf1:12550 comp.unix.bsd.misc:543 In article <312D11F8.794B@garply.com>, Hugh Messenger <hippo@garply.com> wrote: > 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? Yep. Doesn't run OSF/1 binaries yet... he doesn't have shared libraries set up the same way (Linus apparently lucked out there). -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' 1601 Industrial Boulevard Bailey Network Management 'U` Sugar Land, TX 77487-5013 +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?" USA Bailey pays for my technical expertise. My opinions probably scare them