From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/27
Date: 1997-07-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.869978009@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1997Jul26.134447.1@eisner
Larry said
<<Experience on Alpha seem relevant to me since there is a larger
selection of operating systems available. I have not seen these
issues with DEC Unix or VMS, and to me that indicates that the
information is available on Alpha via probing the hardware. I
have not used Linux on Alpha, but I know the port has had strong
assistance from folks at DEC so there should be no issue of some
inside secrets which are unavailable to the developers.
>>
The point is that the Linux port to Alpha is far less well developed
and far less well supported, so far, than the PC port. Of course it
has less to contend with in the way of weird hardware, but nevertheless,
given that we are talking ease of installation here, I think the
ease of installation of the Alpha version says nothing at all about
the ease of installation of the PC version
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-07-22 0:00 Operating Systems Robert D. Yexley
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Nasser
1997-07-23 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-07-24 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Odo Wolbers
1997-07-24 0:00 ` Was Operating Systems (Now Windows GUI Debugger) Jeff Creem
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-23 0:00 ` Operating Systems Robert Dewar
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1997-07-25 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
[not found] ` <5rcimf$a3j$1@news.nyu.edu>
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-07-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1997-07-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-28 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-07-28 0:00 ` Skip Carter
1997-07-28 0:00 ` John Howard
1997-08-01 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-04 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1997-08-05 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
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