On Apr 15, 2007, at 12:27 PM, Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:40:48AM -0700, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
I could have posted this on the alpha list but I thought I might get
a better answer here since that list has very little traffic.
OpenBSD/
cats is no longer around and is OpenBSD/alpha on its way out as well?
I am not intending to cause any rumors or anything but I do have the
opportunity to pick up some alpha machines but I am not going to if
the platform is on its way out. I had a couple of cats machines that
are doing nothing and I don't want to have alphas in the same boat.
Thanks for the info.
While I am not a developer and not privy to Theo's thoughts, I did
notice quite a bit of work on the alpha (some developer mentioned the
switch to gcc 3).
That is a good sign. Another reason to keep it around is that alpha
machines were commercially produced which the cats machines were just
evaluation boards. Big difference. I had a very hard time finding the
two cats boards I came up with. Alpha systems are much easier to come
by and are a much more powerful architecture.
On the other hand, there seems to be a 'the alpha bug' around. I don't
think it's solved yet, and it's been around for a long time.
Apparently,
it causes random crashes.
I was not aware of this bug. That is unfortunate. Hopefully this
might be resolved at some point.
Bryan
