From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 24 09:25:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA27403 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 24 May 1996 09:25:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.HeadCandy.com (root@[199.238.225.168]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA27374 for ; Fri, 24 May 1996 09:25:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.HeadCandy.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA04124; Fri, 24 May 1996 09:16:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605241616.JAA04124@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.HeadCandy.com: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis), "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 24 May 96 09:11:21 -0400. <199605241311.JAA04673@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:16:16 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... Roll your own Internet access -- Seattle People's Internet cooperative. If you're in the Seattle area, ask me how. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------