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From: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: two questions about NetBSD
Date: 30 Dec 1994 15:24:23 GMT
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Thomas Graichen (graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de) wrote:
: * how far is the port to the DecStation (Pmax)?

Here's what my 3100 has to say for itself:

# w
 8:18AM  up 14 days, 20:59, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Of course, it's not completely self-hosting yet and there's a lot of
work to do in cleaning up the toolset... It's not what I would consider
a production environment yet but mine stays up for long periods running
multi-user... I don't run X or anything yet though.

The pmax port was basically done by Ralph Campbell for 4.4 and was
given to NetBSD quite a number of months ago.. It wasn't until recently
that interest actually increased...

Subscribe to port-pmax by sending mail to majordomo@mail.netbsd.org.

: * is NetBSD available via CD-ROM (actual versions)?

Jon Cargill does quite a good job (IMO) with BSDisc.  He's apparently
released a new version that has NetBSD-1.0 on it as well as some
packages put together by John Kohl.

: * is somebody working on a port to the DEC Alpha ?

Yes. I'm not sure what the status is but last I heard it was fairly
impressive.

(I don't speak for NetBSD blah blah blah)

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