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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!news.weeg.uiowa.edu!jboggs From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) Subject: Re: Yay Chris! Message-ID: <1993Jul29.123128.24446@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA References: <CAwy7K.20s@kithrup.com> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 12:31:28 GMT Lines: 19 From article <CAwy7K.20s@kithrup.com>, by sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan): > Much to my amazement, Chris Demetriou, who is still here as I type this, > proved to me that NetBSD 0.9 (pre-ALPHA) was able to boot on my old '386, > which, with any and all versions of 386BSD, was not able to get past the > floppy bootstrap. > > Wow! I am *impressed*! I was terribly disappointed when no 386BSD bootables > were able to deal with my old machine, when Linux was capable of doing so, > so I can now believe that *bsd is becoming really portable. > > So, yay to Chris and the other NetBSD folks, as well as everyone else who > has contributed to the project. > Gee, my machine's exactly the opposite. [Net | 386]BSD work just fine, Linux panics at the first opportunity. I feel I'm better off for it . . . -- John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us or ...!access1!erato!jdb