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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!panix!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2qk8uf$kok@panix2.panix.com> References: <2qcljn$gqt@norm.eng.gtefsd.com> <michaelv.768258619@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> <ho4MM7o.dysonj@delphi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com 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