From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 14 12:30:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09947 for current-outgoing; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09871 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:29:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp (marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp [133.6.57.68]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id MAA22825 for ; Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:29:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp (8.7.4+2.6Wbeta6/3.3W9) with ESMTP id EAA00370; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 04:27:04 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199606141927.EAA00370@marble.eps.nagoya-u.ac.jp> To: current@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD@center.nitech.ac.jp Subject: Re: The Great PC98 Merge In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jun 1996 03:59:56 -0700 (PDT)" References: <199606141059.DAA01863@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.28.1, Mule 2.3 X-PGP-Fingerprint: CA 87 00 60 BB BA 0C 81 A8 FB AA 6A 3A B0 38 9E Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 04:27:03 +0900 From: KATO Takenori Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To non-Japanese folks, I would say `What PC98 is?' NEC PC98 and its compatible machines are Intel based machine which are common in Japan. The word `PC98' stands for `PC-9801' and `PC-9821.' The word `PC98' also includes its compatible, which was made by SEIKO-EPSON. Some part of PC-9801 architecture is similar to that of IBM-PC (e.g., both of them have 640KB conventional RAM, Intel CPU, uPD 765 FDC, i8237 DMAC, and i8259 PIC). However, PC98 is different in many part of hardware stuff and BIOS I/F from IBM-PC (e.g., I/O port assign, graphic stuff, and wd33c93 based SCSI card). We, FreeBSD(98) developers, have ported FreeBSD to suit it to PC98 machines since a few years ago, and FreeBSD(98), which means `FreeBSD for PC98', may become most common free UNIX-like OS _for PC98_ in Japan. (Linux for PC98 has not been maintained for a few years, and it works only on some old computers.) We are pleased at merging our code into FreeBSD-current. We thank to FreeBSD core team for their decision for merging PC98 code. If you have any comment or question, please send an E-mail to: FreeBSD@center.nitech.ac.jp in Japanese or English. Any comments and questions are welcomed. ---- KATO Takenori Dept. Earth Planet. Sci., Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, 464-01, Japan Voice: +81-52-789-2529 Fax: +81-52-789-3033