Subject: Re: Unsupported RS6k's and ofppc
To: None <port-ofppc@NetBSD.org, port-prep@NetBSD.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-prep
Date: 03/13/2006 19:48:43
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:05:22 -0800
Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> wrote:
> well, I did fix ofppc to the point where it was running multi-user
> several years ago,
I suspect this was before I got interrested in it. (Didn't I sell a
PowerStack II to you? At that time ofppc came to my attention for
obvious reasons.)
> but it still wasn't very usable given how slow it was. I guess you
> could say it wasn't so much running as crawling multi-user.
That is why I said it is more or less an academic experiment.
Of course this changes dramatically once we get PCI / ISA attachments
and hardware interrupts.
--=20
tsch=FC=DF,
Jochen
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