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Xref: sserve comp.sys.sun.hardware:18625 comp.sys.sun.admin:34698 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3174 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!isolar!isolar!not-for-mail From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Sparc 1+ What OS to use? Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware Date: 12 Aug 1994 22:31:55 -0700 Organization: Personal Usenet site, Tujunga, CA USA Lines: 69 Message-ID: <32hlsb$d3f@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US> References: <31nrof$q1i@crl3.crl.com> <326hsj$k1s@gnu.mat.uc.pt> In article <326hsj$k1s@gnu.mat.uc.pt>, Paulo Menezes <paulo@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE> wrote: >J. Heather Patrick (jpatrick@crl.com) wrote: >> In article <dan.775892138@macchi>, Daniel Carosone <dan@lochard.com.au> wrote: >>>cdaly@access1.digex.net (CHRIS DALY) writes: >>> >>>I have NetBSD-current/sparc running on a very-similarly-configured >>>machine, and it's definately the winning choice for me. NetBSD/sparc >>>can run nearly all SunOS/sparc binaries (the exceptions being things >>>which grub around with kvm, like ps). > >> Does: >> >> NetBSD run pure Solaris 2 (i.e., SVR4) binaries? Not yet/No, but who cares? NetBSD/SPARC is more useful in place of/alongside SunOS 4.1.x systems (i.e., if your shop is Solaris 2, not much sense in having one machine NetBSD/SPARC and then demanding that it run SVR4 ELF binaries). >> NetBSD have kernel supported threads? No, but on a single-CPU machine (like the currently-supported sun4c's), this isn't enough of a win to care about. >> NetBSD come with WABI? Who cares? Yawn. >> NetBSD fully supports all GX cards? Define "fully supports". There is a CG6 driver, yes. >> NetBSD have the equivalent of "admintool"? (yes, I LIKE admintool!) NetBSD is a hacker's BSD-lover OS, not a namby-pamby "give me a GUI tool Mommy" OS :-) >> ... support Solaris 2.3 AnswerBook? (it's different from >> previous versions, ya know..) What do you mean by "support"? It can probably "support" a 2.3 AB as well as a SunOS 4.1.3 system can, especially if it runs plain X11 (i.e., using Chuck Hedrick's replacement "docviewer" and GhostScript/GhostView). >> And the more twisted questions like > >> "Can you compile Fresco and X11R6 under it?" Stay tuned ... :-) (Patches for compiling X11R6 pl 3 or 4(?) for NetBSD/SPARC are being worked on. Since NetBSD comes with gcc as its "cc", presumably one could compile Fresco on it at some point.) >> Does it support WABI ? Why Anyone Bothers Installing? >Can anyone think of running those things in a SPARCstation 1+, especially WABI. Exactly. Even if you were running Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 5/94, I wouldn't want to run WABI on any machine - currently supported by NetBSD/SPARC, that is - short of a SPARCstation 2 or IPX w/ the Weitek u-Power upgraded CPU ... -- - Greg Earle Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877 [Call # again if Internet: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US you get !FAX tone] UUCP: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle