Subject: Re: NetBSD on PMAX/Sun3...
To: Chuck Van Tilburg <ctilburg@cs.oberlin.edu>
From: Adam Glass <glass@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/05/1994 20:24:22
>
> I also have 5 Sun 3/60 machines, 2 sun 3/50, 3 4/slc, and an IPC not to
> mention various PCs and Macs (none of which I can pry loose to use to
> evaluate NetBSD), so I am quite interested in the sun3 porting effort as
> well. We have SGI machines, but I think due to the open track record of
> SGI a porting effort will just meet with a brick wall.
>
To see the status of the NetBSD/sun3 work, examine the mailing list
archive in agate.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/port-sun3
The short version is that hte port needs some drivers and some
stability work. Right now though you can boot to a shell prompt via
nfs diskless and do some stuff.
> Please respond via email as I do not (yet) subscribe to any of the mailing
> lists due to lack of time.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> chuck
>
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> Charles C. Van Tilburg ctilburg@cs.oberlin.edu
later,
Adam Glass
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