From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 19 15:24:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23520 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (root@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA23515 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:24:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id QAA19059; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:12:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199706192212.QAA19059@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: NetBSD on June issue of Byte Magazine To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:12:25 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199706191626.JAA06819@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Jun 19, 97 09:26:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty fired: % It appears that Oracle is using NetBSD for its NC OS . So in short % there is hope for Unix to be user friendly and great looking . % Check out NC's desktop on page 64 Michael Smith vollied: > Anyone keeping an eye on the DNARD ("shark" : > www.digital.com/semiconductor/dna.htm) could have told you this 8) Amancio countered: > What I am attempting to address is that with what we got today we can > go a long way when it comes to ease of use and configuration. Uh, no. If you read the Digital Semiconductor page closely, you will learn that NetBSD is being distributed with the DNA (Digital Network Appliance) board as a development system. The final application is expected to run on "NC Access" from Network Computer Inc. I believe, but cannot substantiate, that Wind River Systems is a partner in the OS portion of NC Access. On the other hand, it's a cool little design. I can't wait until my 2 arrive. ;^) (Only 100 Mhz processors, though. Pooh!) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com