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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: MIPS port of BSD ? [NEC RISCstation 2000]
Date: 13 Dec 1994 23:47:33 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <3cl4ao$agk@garuda.csulb.edu> vamp@csulb.edu (VampLestat) writes:
>
>Does anyone know if there is a port of 386BSD/FBSD that will run on an NEC
>RISCstation 2000?  Its a dual MIPS R4400 machine, and while there is a port
>of Linux in the works, someone suggested that there might already be a BSD
>port available already.
>
NetBSD supports DEC MIPS machines.  It doesn't support multiple
processors though.  With a little work you probably could get it running
on your NEC box with just a single processor.

-Andrew
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