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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!ringer.cs.utsa.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!pacbell.com!amdahl.com!news.fujitsu.com!nntp-sc.barrnet.net!netapp.com!netapp.com!not-for-mail From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Followup-To: comp.unix.advocacy Date: 19 Jan 1996 17:36:26 -0800 Organization: Network Appliance Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dpguq$d7t@bayonne.netapp.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4dh42v$rnv@park.uvsc.edu> <4djgkh$kgn@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu> <4dkqa7$27e@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.9.200.18 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2057 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2215 comp.unix.solaris:57881 comp.unix.aix:69221 comp.unix.advocacy:13424 (Followups to "comp.unix.advocacy".) Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >There was a conscious choice to not develop the necessary >drivers. It was certainly *possible* for it to run on >commodity x86 rather than Sun hardware. In fact, the original 386i port work was done on a Compaq 386 box. I wouldn't call that a port to commodity x86 hardware, though; it was something that ran on that particular box, and that may not have included, for example, any SunView support for PeeCee video cards. The fact that it wasn't a port to commodity x86 hardware was probably due to Sun not being interested in such a port, and not wanting to spend resources on such a port, rather than such a port not being possible, however.