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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: Re: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 10 Apr 1996 19:12:09 +0100
Organization: The Bath Room
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Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> writes:
> > 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..)
> Because we lacked a NetBSD system to do the tests on, if you happen to
> own a Sparc Classic, I would like to see lmbench results as well, I
> don't have but one classic and it runs Linux.
will NetBSD not run on the system that you tested with SunOS, Solaris and
Linux? (I assume it was the same computer, otherwise the test is dubious)
(I have an SS1 clone, but no Solaris or SunOS available..)
]ain