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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994
Date: 1 Apr 94 05:32:41 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <1994Mar31.203300.29334@uk.ac.swan.pyr> iiitac@uk.ac.swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>In article <michaelv.765050181@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>>NetBSD already runs on the Pentium and 68k Mac. It runs on Suns, but
>>not the 10, yet. I'm sure the PowerMac port is only as far away as
>>the first contributing member buying one. NetBSD as a common platform
>>is probably as close as Solaris for the Mac.
>Last time I checked neither the 4/260 or the 3/160's we have here were
>supported by either Linux or NetBSD. A great pity as the 3/160's especially
>are slowly coming apart under the weight of this hack and that Sun patch
>and this utility being upgraded.
>Alan
General Sun Sparc support *is* in NetBSD already. Hardware support is
just not there for these particular machines yet. I'm sure anyone
genuinely interested in contributing to the Sun port to these machines
would be quite welcome. Remember, it doesn't write itself.
I have never heard of any intended port of Linux for the Sun. NetBSD
was conceived from the beginning (from what I understand) to be
machine non-specific, and its very architecture is layed out in a way
to best accomplish this goal. Since a majority of the Sun port is
already there, I'm sure adding support for new hardware would be
trivial for the person with the knowledge and sufficient
documentation. (For single-CPU's anyway. Multiprocessing would be a
whole new can of worms.)
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free Un*x for PC/Mac/Amiga/etc.
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