Re: alphas at sane prices?

Mike Epstein (mjepst@hcs.harvard.edu)
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 13:15:57 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 29 Dec 1996, Yash Khemani wrote:

> > As far as I know, the only way to use Netscape on the alpha's is to have
> > the DEC libraries on the system also and then use the Netscape for DEC
> > ALPHA. Of course that means that you will have to buy DEC's UNIX to get
> > the libraries.
>
> specificly, which libraries would be required? also, does someone know of
> the academic price for digital unix/osf1/whatever they're calling it now?

All this is only highly theoretical, of course...but if you copy
/sbin/loader from Digital Unix, Netscape'll then tell you what libraries
it wants. On my system, it would have wanted:
libICE.so libXext.so libXt.so libdnet_stub.so
libSM.so libXm.so libc.so libm.so
libX11.so libXmu.so libcurses.so

But once I would have copied all those, it still wouldn't have run -- and
I would have been rather annoyed. It seems to be (theoretically) a rather
hit-and-miss proposition. It would theoretically work on some systems, and
not on others.

The academic price is still, I believe, over $500.

:-) Mike

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