NetBSD/distrib/notes/alpha/whatis

35 lines
934 B
Plaintext

.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.7 2000/10/29 14:08:04 lukem Exp $
.
There have been many \*M-specific enhancements since the
1.4 release.
These include:
.(bullet
The following new system types are supported:
.(bullet -compact
API UP1000 (AMD 751-based) EV6 systems
.It
264DP, XP1000, DS10, DS20, API UP2000 and other Tsunami-based EV6 systems
.It
DECpc AXP 150 (Jensen)
.bullet)
.It
Ability to boot off RAIDframe RAID-1 (mirrored) FFS partitions.
.It
Ability to boot off LFS partitions.
.It
.Xr ddb 4
traceback code added.
.It
Emulate user program use of BWX instructions on CPUs which don't
support them. Handle unaligned accesses caused by BWX instructions.
.It
Improved TGA graphics support, accelerating the text mode and adding
support for the: 8bpp TGA2, and 32bpp ZLXp-E2 and -E3.
.bullet)
.Pp
.Nx
\*V on \*M is, as usual, also fully backward compatible with old
.Nx*M
binaries, so you don't need to recompile all
your local programs.