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From: gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSD for the Sun 3?
Date: 14 Jun 1994 15:20:15 GMT
Organization: Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
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References: <2tibtr$cis@age.cs.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: gwr@mc.com (Gordon W. Ross)
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In-reply-to: farul@news.cs.columbia.edu's message of 13 Jun 1994 15:26:51 -0400

In article <2tibtr$cis@age.cs.columbia.edu> farul@news.cs.columbia.edu (Farul Ghazali) writes:

> From: farul@news.cs.columbia.edu (Farul Ghazali)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
> Date: 13 Jun 1994 15:26:51 -0400
> 
> What is the status on this?  [ NetBSD for the Sun 3 ]

It boots (diskless for now) and presents a single-user shell prompt.
You can run commands, but you soon run into a VM bug that causes the
single-user shell or init to get SIGSEGV and die.

We're working on it...

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