Subject: Re: Q: Compaq, *BSD and 'Linux-only' AlphaBIOS (fwd)
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/04/1999 09:36:16
As Andrew Gallatin wrote ...

> The only problem with this argument is there are a few machines that
> nobody ever made SRM for.  Like the XL266 and the 300XL.  They don't
> trouble us because we don't have them.  But we don't have them because 
> they don't run BSD.
> 
> And then there is the new UP1000 board which claims to have AlphaBios
> only & to support linux. 
> (http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/up1000-board.asp) 
> I think this might be just paperware, as I cannot find any mention of it
> anywhere except at Alpha Processor Inc's site.
> 
> It sure would be nice if they just open-sourced SRM.

No you don't ;-)

.....

SRM is built and developed on OpenVMS/alpha. Over 3200 source & misc files
in a single directory..

(I was once shown the builddir, that is why I know)

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