Re: NetBSD/bebox 1.5?

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> Well, I also have a BeBox but nothing newer than R4.5 because I didn't
> feel like buying a copy for an unsupported system. (I'll omit how I felt
> somewhat disappointment after Be's various course changes) But since
> NetBSD has no SMP support, I won't be running it now either. Also, my

        Not yet, though work is progressing well on i386 (sample kernels
        available), and on alpha and sparc. After that it is intended to
        extend to other SMP capable hardware (vax and macppc are the
        obvious candidates). I'd like to think that there would be a
        lot in common with macppc and be SMP (though I'm not the one to
        say).

> video card (an S3 Trio64) was not reset from the Be logo to text mode,
> so I had to use a serial console back when I tried some boot floppies.
> Those seemed to work fine, though.

        Did you submit a PR on this?

                David/absolute
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