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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 02:12:53 GMT
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>>>>> "BW" == Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> writes:
BW> I wonder how the few customers who have bought Pentium-based
BW> Intel Paragon supercomputer feel about this brouhaha? ;^)
Patrick G. Bridges (bridges@cs.arizona.edu) wrote:
: You mean besides the fact that the Paragon uses i860 chips, not Pentiums,
: and is unaffected by this brouhaha? Now if only the paragon could get a
: decent OS...
Oh, you mean Intel hasn't told anybody about the Pentium-based
Paragon yet? Ooops! Paint me pink and call me blushy! Or is it
just that *you* haven't heard about them? Even Intel doesn't want
to try to program the i860 any more...
A decent OS? You don't like OSF/1? Well, then port {Free,Net}BSD
to it! ;^)
Wes Peters