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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
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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).
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