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Date:      Wed, 8 Nov 1995 07:16:15 +0000 ()
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius)
Cc:        rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, aledm@pavilion.co.uk, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac-FreeBSD (do they mean us?)
Message-ID:  <199511080716.HAA06392@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951107230304.21801A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Nov 7, 95 11:07:40 pm

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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying:
> 
> > they probably meant netbsd. installing netbsd is a pain, and i'm not 
> > surprised they compared superficial appearances of netbsd/mac to linux/pc 
> > and were not impressed. Sorry folks but linux has it all over the *bsd's 
> > when it comes to installing it and keeping it happy. 

Bogometer alert!  This kind of one-eyed one-sample value statement is crap.

>   Have you actually tried to install all of:  NetBSD/mac68k, NetBSD/i386, 
> FreeBSD, and Linux?  NetBSD/mac68k is nothing even like NetBSD/i386 as 

I actually thought that installing NetBSD/68k was fairly painless.  (some 
time ago, so it can only have improved...)

> far as installation.  And NetBSD/68k is buggy, mainly because of all the 
> little hardware quirks that Apple threw in, and didn't tell anyone about.

Like having to use a serial terminal because (at the time) the video on 
my IIsi wasn't supported 8)

> Tom

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