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From: J.C.Highfield@lboro.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.arm
Subject: Re: Is NetBSD alive?
Date: 9 Jun 1997 19:50:46 GMT
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Message-ID: <5nhmqm$ppo@sun-cc204.lboro.ac.uk>
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Michael Parson <mparson@roloc.bl.org> wrote:
>In article <339CB4F3.5082@nospam.nedernet.nl>,
>Pim van der Eijk <pvde@nospam.nedernet.nl> wrote:
>>Does anyone have information on the StrongARM port announced by
>>Digital Semiconductor ? On a related note, what's the role of
>>NetBSD in the Oracle Network Computer ? I've found it hard to
>>find any information on this so far.
>
>I don't know how involved Digital Semiconductor was with it... but
>there is RiscBSD <http://www.ph.kcl.ac.uk/~amb/riscbsd/riscbsd.html>
I think he was referring to <http://www.digital.com/semiconductor/dna.htm>
which refers to a StrongARM port of NetBSD for their network computer
reference platform. They seem to be using it as a development
environment while waiting for Oracle's OS.
Regards,
Julian.