Thor Lancelot Simon wrote...
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> On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 05:26:49PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > The SRM vs. AlphaBios/ARC issues are a phantom. *BSD has a long way to go
> > > to fully support the SRM capapble machines before worrying about platforms
> > > which don't have SRM. This is a sideshow. I would have said it was more
> > > critical if Tru64 died, but much to &my& surprise it was NT-Alpha that
> > > walked the plank, not DUh (now Tru64). Given that Tru64 is very
> > > successfully selling on the leading new Dompaq platforms (and depends on
> > > SRM), I rather doubt *BSD will get all that left behind because we've not
> > > gotten ARC/AlphaBios yet.
> > 
> > If you know something I don't about Alpha Processor Inc's machines, I'd 
> > love to hear it.  They are only shipping AlphaBIOS, since there is MILO 
> > code for their systems.
> 
> Well, API certainly managed to ship Ross a machine with SRM so that he
> could port NetBSD to their hardware.
> 


FYI....

The SRM code is available on the API web site although I haven't 
tested it...




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