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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: Yay Chris!
Message-ID: <1993Jul29.123128.24446@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <CAwy7K.20s@kithrup.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1993 12:31:28 GMT
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From article <CAwy7K.20s@kithrup.com>, by sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan):
> Much to my amazement, Chris Demetriou, who is still here as I type this,
> proved to me that NetBSD 0.9 (pre-ALPHA) was able to boot on my old '386,
> which, with any and all versions of 386BSD, was not able to get past the
> floppy bootstrap.
>
> Wow! I am *impressed*! I was terribly disappointed when no 386BSD bootables
> were able to deal with my old machine, when Linux was capable of doing so,
> so I can now believe that *bsd is becoming really portable.
>
> So, yay to Chris and the other NetBSD folks, as well as everyone else who
> has contributed to the project.
>
Gee, my machine's exactly the opposite. [Net | 386]BSD work just fine, Linux
panics at the first opportunity. I feel I'm better off for it . . .
--
John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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