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Subject: Re: BNR2SS vs xxxBSD...
Message-ID: <1993Jun16.021351.6311@spcvxb.spc.edu>
From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Date: 16 Jun 93 02:13:51 EDT
References: <CGD.93Jun9100246@eden.cs.berkeley.edu> <C8D75n.CLz@kithrup.com> <DERAADT.93Jun9233017@newt.fsa.ca> <31782@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
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In article <31782@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, torek@horse.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
> 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 thoroughly out of date, and the 386 support is way behind the NetBSD in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.

  I got my "4.4BSD is complete" letter today, complete with check-boxes
for which binary architecture I'd like. The choices are the hp300, the
DECstation (MIPS) boxes, and Sparcstation I/II.

  There was some work done with 4.4/VAX here, but we decided to move to
386's as a more cost-effective solution. Paul Vixie was working on the
VAX VM stuff as well, but I never heard back if he got it working.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
	terry@spcvxa.bitnet	St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
	terry@spcvxa.spc.edu	+1 201 915 9381