Subject: Re: general NetBSD/Alpha questions
To: None <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/24/1995 14:00:35
Thomas J. Merritt writes:
 > 4)	What Alpha machines and configurations are people planning
 > 	on running NetBSD/Alpha on?

I'd be particularly interested in knowing how much memory is
suggested/required.  I'm running OSF/1 3.0 now, and even without an X
server running 32M of memory is barely tolerable.  I'm hoping
NetBSD/Alpha is more efficient than OSF/1.

Also, are there any plans to start supporing the PCI based machines
from DEC & the clone makers?  One would think that a lot of code for
PCI hardware could be leveraged from the i386 port.  Plus, it seems
like frame-buffer support would be much easier.

I also want to say that I'm very impressed that its working as well as
it sounds like - a week of uptime sounds pretty good to me, better
than a lot of people did with OSF/1 1.2  :-)

Drew
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