On Wed, 3 May 1995, Greg Earle wrote:

[ Alpha has programmable instruction set, a la Cray ]

> The Viper runs either DEC OSF/1 (UNIX) or emulates an Intel 486 and runs
> Windows NT (POSIX).  

Oh, if that were true... :) I was quite sure the Alpha had its own very
fixed instruction set (although the endian-ness is selectable at boot
time).  Also, NT has been ported to a good variety architectures (good for
MS, that is).

"You're porting NetBSD to the Alpha?  But I'm already running NetBSD on my 
Alpha. I just upload the 486 instruction set in the boot blocks..."

Marc.

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