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From: brazile@cs.utexas.edu (P. Jason Brazile)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Sprite (was Re: Digiboards and BSDI/386)
Date: 14 Jun 1993 12:13:40 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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References: <1993Jun12.040132.18268@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C8I9E4.A6q@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <m1mnvlINNaod@dimebox.cs.utexas.edu> <C8LB3v.w0@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
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Keywords: Sprite, Distributed BSD

In article <C8LB3v.w0@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Actually, no, that's not my primary interest. IF I just wanted AT&T-free
>thingix for hacking, I'd probably be using Linux. From what I've read and
>seen, Sprite is about as cool as anything else out there, and much more
>technically interesting than *BSD or Linux or Mach.

Great, so we basically agree.

To answer your first question, in glancing at the 1.096 source, they seem to 
only have machine support for:

Sun 3
Sun 4
Decstation 3100
Decstation 5000

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Jason Brazile 					brazile@cs.utexas.edu
Graduate Student				Dept of Computer Science 
"People say I'm apathetic but I don't care" 	University of Texas