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From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD/LINUX - Sun/SPARC version yet?
Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:56:24 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
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In article <3eo6kv$kl1@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:
>
>Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
>Contractor - Stuart Tener (tener@corp.hp.com) had the courage to say:
>
>: 	But -- does freebsd work on the sparc?
>
>No.
>

NetBSD works great on the SPARC.  It is not so different from FreeBSD,
you should give it a try!

mybox:~> uname -a
NetBSD mybox 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (MYBOX) #0: Mon Oct 24 18:32:46 EDT 1994
gillham@mybox:/Net/ghost/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/MYBOX sparc
mybox:~> uptime
 2:50PM  up 73 days, 19:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00

As you can see, its real *STABLE* too.. :-)

-Andrew
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Andrew Gillham                       gillham@andrews.edu
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