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From: souva@aibn58.astro.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: apollo domain series 3500
In-Reply-To: benh@inlink.com's message of Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:27:31 -0600
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In article <benh-2304960927310001@osiris.inlink.com> benh@inlink.com
(Ben Hockenhull) writes:

   In article <74f61ad9.17275@luckey.citi.umich.edu>, rees@umich.edu (Jim
   Rees) wrote:

   > 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.
   > 
   > If you don't know what Domain/OS is, you don't want it.

   Heh.  I know what it is and a certain amount about the admin of it (which
   has frightening implications). 

   I just thought it'd be fun to play with BSD or Linux on an Apollo, because
   I'm just that kind of insane...

There _is_ somebody working on the Apollo port. Just needs it time.

Regards,
	Ignatios Souvatzis
-- 
	Ignatios Souvatzis (also ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de)
about WABI, MS-Windows emulator on SPARCs:
Budi Rahardjo: "Sure it is nice, but there are still too many bugs.[...] every
 session it crashes at least 3 times for me."
Carlo J. Calica: "Hmmm. Sounds like a perfect Windows emulation to me :-)"