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Re: Alpha CPU
- To: John Beardmore <wookie at wookie dot demon dot co dot uk>, cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Alpha CPU
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:46:46 -0400
At 01:53 PM 10/10/2000, John Beardmore wrote:
>Has cygwin been ported to run under NT 4 on the Alpha processors ?
Check the email archives on this. Someone did some work on this a while
ago but I'm not sure what the state is now.
>If not, what would I need to do a port ?
The Cygwin source!;-) See sources.redhat.com/cygwin.
>I've been given a couple of 2100 servers and was thinking of running
>Linux on them, but it sounds as if Linux isn't rock solid with multiple
>processors under Sable architecture.
>
>I'm wondering if I might get best use of these boxes by leaving NT in
>place as an abstraction layer to use both CPUs, while giving me an
>environment that can run most Linux apps ?
>
>To what extent does the cygwin dll offer a unix kernel style api ? I
>assume Linux executables can't be persuaded to run under cygwin without
>some recompilation ?
Correct.
>Cheers, J/.
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>John Beardmore
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
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