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From: careya@PEAK.ORG (Andrew Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD for i80960?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 08:01:14 GMT
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Jason R Thorpe (thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <vxzqar9fuy.fsf@ikke.idt.unit.no>,
: Jarle F. Greipsland <jarle@idt.unit.no> wrote:

: >> 	I saw a lot of them in the bigger HP printers.....pretty sad, better
: >> cpu in my printer than my desktop :)
: >
: >How about a NetBSD/deskjet port ;-)?

: Heh ... now that NetBSD/arm32 is in the tree, who would like to port
: NetBSD to the Newton?  ;-)

Having only 2mb of ram could be a small deterent to that effort. Course,
it could swap over appletalk.. *shudder*

I personally am going for the NetBSD/laserjet port, once the "LCD"
framebuffer is supported under X. :)

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Andy Carey		| "One cannot be successful in running typical 
careya@peak.org		|  HP-UX boxes with man pages."
careya@bofh.org.uk	| - Bill Hassell <blh@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>