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From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD for the Sun386i
Date: 8 May 1994 22:59:27 -0400
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
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In article <ho4MM7o.dysonj@delphi.com>, John Dyson  <dysonj@delphi.com> wrote:
>Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> writes:
> 
>>>I would like to port NetBSD or FreeBSD to the Sun386i.  Any 
>>>one have any suggestions or advice?
>>
>>FreeBSD is not architecture-neutral -- it's for i386 only.  NetBSD is
>>layed out in such a way as to lend itself to porting to any
>>architecture.
> 
>Ahww, come on now...  The machine independant portions of FreeBSD
>are just as architecture neutral as NetBSD.  There have been some I386

Uh...almost, at best.

Can we say, "sio and hacks on the tty code", kids?

There, I knew we could.
-- 
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