Subject: NetRhapsoBSDy :-)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/17/1998 07:06:52
Thought you might get a kick out of this:
myg3:1:4 [/] # uname -a
Rhapsody myg3 5.1 Rhapsody Operating System Release 5.1: Fri Apr 17 13:29:35 PDT
1998; root(rcbuilder):Objects/kernel-105.6.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Copyright (c) 1988
-1995,1997 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Power Macintosh
myg3:1:5 [/] # find / -type f -print | xargs egrep NetBSD | wc -l
629
myg3:1:6 [/] # find / -type f -print | xargs egrep OpenBSD | wc -l
428
myg3:1:7 [/] # find / -type f -print | xargs egrep FreeBSD | wc -l
57
Wouldn't it be nice if Apple helped us get NetBSD ported natively to the PPC
Macs, given how much they've availed themselves of our generosity? :-)
Zippy little boxes, these G3's. Mine's only a G3 266 with
512 K backside cache (running at 133 MHz), yet check it out:
ultra30:1:7 [/] # sysinfo |& egrep SUNW
SUNW,Ultra-30 is a "SUNW,501-3139"
cpu0 is a "296 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-II" CPU
ultra30:1:8 [/] # uname -a
SunOS ultra30 5.6 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-30
ultra30:1:9 [/] # bc -v
bc 1.05
Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
ultra30:1:10 [/] # echo '2 ^ 100000' | /usr/bin/time bc |& egrep user
user 29.6
versus
myg3:1:5 [/] # bc -v
bc 1.04
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
myg3:1:6 [/] # echo '2 ^ 100000' | /usr/bin/time bc | egrep user
21.75 real 21.71 user 0.00 sys
(My Pentium 133 running NetBSD/i386 1.2.1 takes 55 seconds, FWIW. Yes I
realize this is unscientific as Hell, but heck, it's Fun (-: )
These cheap desktop G3's would make a realllly nice fast little NetBSD box ...
(yoo hoo, Apple ... )
[Followups only to me, please ... as this is non-topic stuff]
- Greg