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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!barrnet.net!dolby.com!news From: dem@dolby.com (Douglas Mandell) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Save the Orphaned-- *BSD for Sun 386i?? Date: 29 Jul 1994 03:12:11 GMT Organization: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <319s2b$6e9@iserver.dolby.com> Reply-To: dem@dolby.com NNTP-Posting-Host: sprocket.dolby.com Keywords: 386i BSD While poking around in the TODO file included with release 0.9 of NetBSD, I noticed: > Low Kernel: > > . . . > > [i386] i386i support (save the orphaned) Does this refer to the Sun 386i? If so, has anything been done on it? We have several of these machines which, although they are only powered by 25MHz 80386s, are actually built like workstations, not PCs. They would make nifty clerks for simple tasks (local DNS, print servers, etc.) if only I had some current OS software... I ran SunOS 4.0.3 with X11R5 on one of these for quite a while, and it ran CIRCLES around any but the fastest PCs as an X-server. Only now the OS is old enough that I have to do too much hacking to get many programs to compile and run properly-- even with GCC. Even though I'm now using a Sparc10 clone, I still have a soft spot for those dear old machines, and would like to keep them running usefully. --Douglas (I love junk) Mandell