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From: admin2@gad3b2.hq.af.mil (SrA Bob Huffman;57137)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: ***BSD on Sun 386i?
Date: 13 Apr 1994 16:29:28 GMT
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Michael A. Bloom (mab@soldev.tti.com) wrote:
: I might be getting a Sun 386i to take home from work soon, and would
: prefer to run some BSD variant on it (rather than SunOS 4.0.2).

: So, have any of the existing BSD variants (netbsd, freebsd, 386bsd,
: etc) been ported to this machine?

: If not, does anyone know how much might be missing in the closest
: port?  (it's my understanding, and I could be wrong, that before the
: 386i hardware was ready, Sun did their initial SunOS port to a compaq
: and then ported the result to the 386i)

: Michael Bloom
: mab@tti.com

Anyone that finds this out, please let me know also.  I have two of them
acting as doorstops, and the shell of a third...

Bob


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