I've done swap on an nbd share... with the nbd from busybox no less... on a SparcStation LX with Gentoo (compiled on a T2000)
Actually the TurboSparc based 3TX and 3000ST supported 256MB via undocumented factory upgrade... not sure how they did it exactly but it was official. Might have been something as crazy as installing ram with a custom…
Well a lot of the Alpha engineers ended up working on and helped design AMD's AMD64 extensions and hypertransport bus, after AMD adopted the Alpha's EV6 bus for the Athlon you could say Alpha technology and engineers…
I've done swap on an nbd share... with the nbd from busybox no less... on a SparcStation LX with Gentoo (compiled on a T2000)
Actually the TurboSparc based 3TX and 3000ST supported 256MB via undocumented factory upgrade... not sure how they did it exactly but it was official. Might have been something as crazy as installing ram with a custom…
Well a lot of the Alpha engineers ended up working on and helped design AMD's AMD64 extensions and hypertransport bus, after AMD adopted the Alpha's EV6 bus for the Athlon you could say Alpha technology and engineers…