Subject: Re: State of ALPHA alpha 1.3
To: Mark H. Levine <yba@polytronics.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/10/1997 16:24:42
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:05:39 -0500
"Mark H. Levine" <yba@polytronics.com> wrote:
> I wonder if this means you think there is a working XFree86 for it now,
> or something other than the TGA1-only server? Moving folks off Linux,
> which someone else held out as a goal, will take having a display driver
> that works, I would think (I know it is true for me). I watched NT on
> a 21164, and it screams. I would love for the picture you paint to be
> true :).
It all depends on your goals. In many ways, NetBSD/alpha outperforms
Digital UNIX in I/O operations. That is our (NAS's) primary focus.
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