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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sparc port ????
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:00:00 -0700
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Chris Barrera wrote:
]
] I keep hearing vague rumours that there is supposed to be a Sparc
] port of FreeBSD or such. Unfortunately, neither Walnut Creek's nor
] BSDI's web page have a spit of information that can be located. They
] certainly don't seem to be advertising it in any place obvious.
]
] Where can I find any information ? Specific web pages will be
] helpful because there is nothing in FAQs or top level home pages
] that remotely mention Sparc.
BSDI has press-released that they will have a SPARC port. They
have also press-released SMP support.
There was a SPARC port of 1.1.5.1 which was never released. It wa
done by Jack Vogel shortly before the USL/UCB lawsuit, after which
the Net/2 code base wsa abandoned.
There is currently a SPARC port of NetBSD. Check www.netbsd.org.
There is also a SPARC for of OpenBSD. Check www.openbsd.org.
Both claim to run SunOS binaries.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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