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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD for Sun??? Date: 4 May 94 01:32:56 Organization: little lizard city Lines: 16 Message-ID: <DERAADT.94May4013256@newt.fsa.ca> References: <asolbergCp9E6E.7Jo@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca In-reply-to: asolberg@netcom.com's message of Wed, 4 May 1994 03:39:49 GMT In article <asolbergCp9E6E.7Jo@netcom.com> asolberg@netcom.com (Andrew Solberg) writes: Did I hear before that someone was porting NetBSD to the Sun arch? NetBSD is quite stable on the Sun sun4c architecture. People are running with shared libraries and X. Almost all SunOS binaries continue work on it. It is somewhat less stable on the sun3/[56]0 architecture, though steps are being taken to improve that. SunOS binary compatibility exists here too. In fact, the SunOS binary compatibility mode is also available on the Mac and Amiga ports. Go head, run FrameMaker on your Amiga... -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca