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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!news1.best.com!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 8 Apr 1996 11:27:00 +0100 Organization: The Bath Room Lines: 15 Message-ID: <4kaplk$61g@skate.demon.co.uk> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4jve3t$cfe@hermes.synopsys.com> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k2i4g$n55@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4k33jr$khp@hoopoe.psc.edu> <s8g2afwrth.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Brians News Reader V0.8 [NetBSD] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:20904 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:505 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3062 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2836 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16914 Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> writes: > Linux on the Sparc is faster than SunOS and Solaris for operating > system functions (as shown by running lmbench on the machine). these statistics are all very interesting, but why is NetBSD not included in your table for completeness? This thread is crossposted to comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, and NetBSD has been available for SPARC machines for quite some time (long enough for the Linux developers to have heard of it, for sure..) what state is the Linux SPARC port in, anyway, has it reached a release state yet? (any news on FreeBSD?) ]ain