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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Is there a port to R3000 or R4000 processors?
Date: 19 Jun 94 22:35:44 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <louCrKKLp.Ks0@netcom.com> lou@netcom.com (Lou Katz) writes:

>Has anyone ported or started to port any of the available Unices(TM)
>to R4000 processors, or even to R3000 machines?

There is a port of NetBSD to the older DECstations (2100, 3100, and
5000/200; the first two being R2000, and the last, I believe, an
R3000).  I don't know what state the PMAX port is currently in, but
last I heard it was in alpha development.

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