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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!news.dell.com!milano!gloss.mcc.com!joe From: joe@.mcc.com (Joe Newman) Subject: "Free-UNIX" porting survey Message-ID: <CCsrr6.AI3@mcc.com> Originator: joe@gloss.mcc.com Sender: news@mcc.com Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 21:30:42 GMT Lines: 23 Greetings, I'm currently working on a proposal for a project which would include a port of netbsd or linux to a distributed machine based on R4000 and Alpha processors. I would be grateful if anyone who has undertaken such a port could tell me: 1) How long did the port take and how many people worked on it? 2) What was the target platform? 3) Was the goal an experimental OS, or an industrial-strength product? (Are there any users who had nothing to do with the port?) Please respond via email, and if there's a reasonable response, I'll post a summary. Thanks a lot, Joe Newman MCC/Experimental Systems Lab jnewman@mcc.com