R. C. Dowdeswell wrote
> 
> 
> I was just wondering what the state of Linux emulation is on the
> alpha.  A friend of mine wants to run NetBSD on an alpha, but also
> wants to have Matlab, and he has the Linux alpha version available.

not the answer but perhaps an alternative just in case...

I've been tinkering with Scilab-2.4.1 which looks very promising and
may be worth looking at. Its running on my NetBSD-1.3.2-i386 but
assume that it is 64 bit clean since there is a DEC-Alpha
binary (DU?) available on their ftp server.

More info can be found on
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/

cheerio Berndt
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