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Re: Alpha CPU


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/.
>-- 
>John Beardmore





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