Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:42:51 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Paul Borman <prb@bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merger information Message-ID: <38C9F8FB.EF9F863B@softweyr.com> References: <200003110610.AAA26472@krystal.com>
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Paul Borman wrote:
>
> BSD/OS 4.1 for Sparc has just entered the first limited round of betas.
> UUNET has been running BSD/OS on Sparc hardware for a number of years.
> 4.1 supports up through UltraSPARC V9, though PCI based machines are
> not yet supported (that work is underway). I have no release schedule
> information, however.
>
> As has been mentioned, it will be some time to sort things out. The
> best and more reliable information thus far has been the Press Release.
> Clearly more information will be needed :-)
>
> Just a note, I am not a subscriber to this list, I was just browsing
> this evening. I thought the above might be useful to you. There is
> probably not a whole lot else I could provide at this time.
Thank you, Paul, that is useful information. My observation remains,
the best course anyone interested can pursue at this moment is to
begin to port the FreeBSD userland tools to NetBSD-SPARC in preparation
for the kernel work.
--
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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