NetRhapsoBSDy :-)

[Greg Earle <earle%isolar.Tujunga.CA.US@localhost>]

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