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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a 486?
Date: 4 Mar 94 02:32:44 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <2l5f5lINNglq@uwm.edu> jr12@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (James Richard Leu) writes:

>I currently run linux on my 486 at home... Can NetBSD be run on a Intel
>based proccessor?  If not what arch's does it run on?

This is how 95% of the people running NetBSD are running it.
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with a 386, but it runs great on my machine.
It's a great OS -- check it out.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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