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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!pv6f17.vincent.iastate.edu!spberry From: spberry@iastate.edu (Sean Berry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: apollo domain series 3500 Date: 19 Apr 96 20:48:39 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 25 Message-ID: <spberry.829946919@pv6f17.vincent.iastate.edu> References: <4krj02$1k28@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <74e188d3.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> <benh-1904960931380001@osiris.inlink.com> <74f61ad9.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: pv6f17.vincent.iastate.edu In <74f61ad9.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu> rees@umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes: >In article <benh-1904960931380001@osiris.inlink.com>, benh@inlink.com (Ben Hockenhull) writes: > I'm about to get one of these Apollos. Is the port still active? Is > there anything else you can tell me about BSD on Apollo, or any other OS > on Apollos? >The guy who was heading up the porting project has no time these days to >work on it. In my opinion the whole thing is a waste of time, because >without Domain/OS, an Apollo is just hardware. If you want NetBSD, you're >better off buying Intel equipment. Without MacOS, a Mac is just hardware. And kinda weird hardware sometimes. (Until someone wrote bits for it to run BSD) Like many of the older orphaned hardware platforms, the Apollos are kinda neat in weird ways. (Besides, it'd be kinda nice as an Xterminal and more) >If you don't know what Domain/OS is, you don't want it. I've got it. I've seen OS's that suck more. -- Sean Berry is an ISTJ cellist who plays with netbsd. What good is a soul I imagine someone is likely to misinterpret without fire to feed it? my opinions as those of my various employers. This is not the case.