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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: NetBSd vs SunOS ?
Date: 28 Oct 1994 10:58:17 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:

>How close are you to SS5/SS10/SS20 support?  That's a different CPU, right?

*many* different CPUs.  First there's a difference in MMUs, which is
probably the main difference.  But there are a *lot* of different 
SuperSPARC processors about.  (Different bugs, different speeds, etc).

And MP.

Casper