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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!fs1.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de!souva From: souva@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) Subject: Re: apollo domain series 3500 In-Reply-To: benh@inlink.com's message of Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:27:31 -0600 Message-ID: <SOUVA.96Apr26211448@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de> Sender: news@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de Nntp-Posting-Host: aibn58 Reply-To: isouvatzis@astro.uni-bonn.de Organization: Radioastronomisches Institut der Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, FRG References: <4krj02$1k28@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <74e188d3.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> <benh-1904960931380001@osiris.inlink.com> <74f61ad9.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> <benh-2304960927310001@osiris.inlink.com> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 19:14:48 GMT Lines: 36 In article <benh-2304960927310001@osiris.inlink.com> benh@inlink.com (Ben Hockenhull) writes: In article <74f61ad9.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu>, rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) wrote: > In article <benh-1904960931380001@osiris.inlink.com>, benh@inlink.com (Ben Hockenhull) writes: > > I'm about to get one of these Apollos. Is the port still active? Is > there anything else you can tell me about BSD on Apollo, or any other OS > on Apollos? > > The guy who was heading up the porting project has no time these days to > work on it. In my opinion the whole thing is a waste of time, because > without Domain/OS, an Apollo is just hardware. If you want NetBSD, you're > better off buying Intel equipment. > > If you don't know what Domain/OS is, you don't want it. Heh. I know what it is and a certain amount about the admin of it (which has frightening implications). I just thought it'd be fun to play with BSD or Linux on an Apollo, because I'm just that kind of insane... There _is_ somebody working on the Apollo port. Just needs it time. Regards, Ignatios Souvatzis -- Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de) about WABI, MS-Windows emulator on SPARCs: Budi Rahardjo: "Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.[...] every session it crashes at least 3 times for me." Carlo J. Calica: "Hmmm. Sounds like a perfect Windows emulation to me :-)"