10 May
2013
10 May
'13
2:55 p.m.
At 5:14 PM -0400 5/10/13, Dave McGuire wrote:
Having run Solaris 2.6 on a Sun SparcStation 2, I don't think I'd
want to run Linux on a Sun IPC.
As for Linux on an Alpha, I've not tried that, but that was the first
CPU it was ported to, after x86. I have run OpenBSD on an
Alphstation 200 4/233 and found it to perform quite nicely. My
problem with running UNIX on an Alpha is it's a waste of hardware
that could be used to run OpenVMS!
Much to my surprise a couple weeks ago, I found the DECstation 5000
that I bought to run NetBSD. I thought I'd dumped it on Jim Willing
over a decade ago.
Zane
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On 05/10/2013 04:21 PM, David Griffith wrote:
Have you ever
tried running Linux on a Sun IPC?
Linux on an Alpha is probably the worst.
I think a lot of that was due to GCC's abyssmal code generation on those
architectures at the time. It's much better nowadays.
I'll never understand the drive to put Linux on an SGI. "Gee, we've got
all this great hardware, let's WASTE it!"
-Dave