10 May
2013
10 May
'13
6:10 p.m.
On 05/10/2013 05:55 PM, Zane H. Healy 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.
Ohhhh my. Fear.
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!" 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.
Yes. The trouble with (early) Linux on Alpha, in particular, was that it
seemed to spend most of its CPU cycles in the alignment trap fixup handler.
They fixed that relatively quickly, but not before I came to my senses and
put Ultrix on the machine. (it needed to run a UNIX variant for its intended
application)
My problem with running UNIX on an Alpha
is it's a waste of hardware that could be used to run OpenVMS!
Yes.
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.
Let me know if it needs a new home!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA