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From: lm@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 available for anon-ftp...
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Date: 28 Aug 93 02:48:26 GMT
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>Umm.. this is misleading.  While NetBSD does support the i386
>architecture, it is being modified towards providing a common code
>base for ports to other architectures.
>
>Already we have ports for the Amiga, hp300 (this was largely in
>net/2), Macintosh (to be released soon).  I am also aware of
>ports-in-progress for other 68k-based platforms including the Sun3 (by
>me), NS32k single-board computers, and 88k, MIPS, and sparc-based
>workstations.
>
>later,
>Adam Glass

People interested in *doing* serious SPARC work, especially sun4m arch,
please contact me.  415-821-5758.

Thanks.