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From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium)
Date: 11 Apr 1996 18:15:35 -0600
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
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> > Because we lacked a NetBSD system to do the tests on, if you happen to
> > own a Sparc Classic, I would like to see lmbench results as well, I
> > don't have but one classic and it runs Linux.
> 
> will NetBSD not run on the system that you tested with SunOS, Solaris and
> Linux?  (I assume it was the same computer, otherwise the test is dubious)

Do not know, I'm mostly sure it does, we can do the tests, will post
when I'm back from LinuxExpo'96 in North Carolina this weekend.

Miguel.
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