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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD FreeBSD LINUX and BSDI Unixes
Date: 10 Feb 1994 08:00:23 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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Message-ID: <2jdb57$1bm@panix.com>
References: <76.9.490.0N965E1E@teaminfinity.com> <2jbc84$1j1@hopscotch.ksr.com> <CGD.94Feb9211504@erewhon.cs.berkeley.edu>
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In article <CGD.94Feb9211504@erewhon.cs.berkeley.edu>,
Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
>In article <2jbc84$1j1@hopscotch.ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
>>NetBSD and FreeBSD are derivatives of Bill Jolitz' port of 4.3BSD/Net2 to
>>the PC architecture ("386BSD").
>
>This isn't a very accurate statement.
>
>Yes, the i386 code in NetBSD is originally derived from 386BSD,
>but basically all of the differences between Net/2 and 386BSD
>have been removed (because a lot of them were bogus). In the
>case of things like execve(), etc., they've been rewritten from
>scratch.
>
>Also, NetBSD currently runs (i.e. is stable, usable, etc.)
>on the following architectures:
>
>amiga
>hp300
>i386
>mac (limited models)
>sparc
>
>and significant work has been done on:
>
>pc532
>pmax
>sun3
What is the significant work that's been done on the pmax port? Last I
heard, the not-ready-for-prime-time magnum tree was needed, and in consequence
almost nobody was working on NetBSD/pmax. Have I missed something?
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud