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Date:      Fri, 24 May 1996 09:16:16 -0700
From:      "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
To:        "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@transsys.com>
Cc:        dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) 
Message-ID:  <199605241616.JAA04124@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 24 May 96 09:11:21 -0400. <199605241311.JAA04673@whizzo.transsys.com> 

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>You can't find one that works anywhere near as well as a Sun Sparc
>platform, where you can do *anything* you need from the serial port,
>like change the boot device, format the disk, boot the system, etc.
>In fact, GNP makes a NEBS complient Sparc platform suitable for just
>this environment; it's really *very* cool.  Cool enough that we are
>going to incur the considerable extra cost of maintaining a Solarius
>platform as well as the BSDI platforms we already have.

Re: needing Solarus for a Sparc -- NetBSD has a very mature, stable
Sparc port.  FYI...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
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    NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others...

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