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From: reilly@zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unix for NEC riscserver 2200
Date: 23 Jun 1997 01:47:55 GMT
Organization: Andrew and Catherine Reilly at home
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In article <5ocknf$str@gw.pacbell.com>,
	"Thomas J. Carney" <tjcarn1@pacbell.com> writes:
> I have this very nice NEC RiscServer 2200 and since it has been abandoned
> by microsoft I was wondering if I can find a UNIX os to run on this
> hardware.

I can't say for sure, because the MIPS ports seem to have
taken longer to get going than some of the others, but if
it's anywhere, it is in the NetBSD arch/mips tree.  I have
seen talk of support for the Acer PICO recently, and since
both it and your NEC are ARC machines, you might be lucky.

Have a look at http://www.netbsd.org/ and
comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc anyway.

-- 
Andrew

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsgar W. Dijkstra