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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