SUMMARY II: operating systems for alpha

From: Mirat Satoglu <mirat_at_bornova.ege.edu.tr>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 09:14:02 +0400 (EET DST)

Thx goes to alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com , Nathan Dietsch and Jason Andrade.

Alan reminded that Nt was not available but OpenVMS, Nathan said that
Debian also supports alphas, right it supports most of alphas but not DEC
3000 series because of TurboChannel, and Jason reminded that:
>FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD will work, but they do not support any
>TurboChannel expansion cards or the onboard graphics cards. You have to
use
>a serial/dumb-terminal console to use these operating systems.

this isn't true anymore - some recent work in NetBSD means you can use
the graphics cards fine under NetBSD-current. (at least the 8 bit one
and probably the 24bit one too)

Thx..
Mehmet Mirat Satoglu
Received on Fri Jul 23 1999 - 06:19:16 NZST

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