Subject: Re: NetBSD/Alpha
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/24/1998 16:45:42
On Sun, 24 May 1998 19:17:48 -0400 
 "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

 > 
 > "Michael G. Schabert" writes:
 > >     <NOTE: This is being sent to both
 > >     port-mac68k@NetBSD.org as well as port-alpha@NetBSD.org>
 > 
 > You are sending a message about a sparc to the m68k list and the alpha 
 > list?

I think he sent it to port-mac68k because he's also a mac68k user, and
thought maybe some of his question might be a generic NetBSD problem...

 > > I recently obtained a SparcStation with no software (actually, no hard
 > > drive) to play with. I wish to put NetBSD/Alpha onto it,
 > 
 > What would make you think that a Sparc could run code intended for an
 > Alpha, any more than it could run code intended for a 68040?

...and "SparcStation" was obviously a brain-o.  Lighten up, dood...

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