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From: torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: BNR2SS vs xxxBSD...
Date: 16 Jun 1993 00:42:42 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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In article <DERAADT.93Jun9233017@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca
(Theo de Raadt) writes:
>Does someone who fiddles with 4.4 want to remind people how many
>architectures 4.4 has been ported to?

The 4.4 tree has machine-dependent kernel directories for:

	hp300	-- HP 9000/300 series 680x0 workstations
	i386	-- need I explicate? :-)
	luna68k	-- 680x0 workstations from Omron (a Japanese company)
	news3400 - Sony NEWS workstations (R3000 based)
	pmax	-- DEC PMAX workstations (R3000 based)
	sparc	-- Sun SS1, SS2 series (i.e., only older sparc boxes)
	tahoe	-- CCI/Harris/ICL/Sperry `tahoe' machines
	vax	-- where `vmunix' began

Not all of these work; in particular, the vax and tahoe support is
thoroughly out of date, and the 386 support is way behind the NetBSD in
stability, if it works at all.  I personally use hp300 and sparc boxes
running 4.4BSD; these seem to be as stable as anything using the Mach
2.5-based VM can be.  I know very little about the other three ports.
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