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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!ub4b!inftec.be!mike From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts) Subject: Re: BSDI/sparc (Rob's Talk) [Was: Any truth to BSDI doing a port to Sparc? Message-ID: <1992Nov14.132418.1204@inftec.be> Keywords: BSDI, BSD, Sparc Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium. References: <kzin.721536140@cc.gatech.edu> <1992Nov14.015225.13368@tgivan.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 13:24:18 GMT Lines: 28 In article <1992Nov14.015225.13368@tgivan.wimsey.bc.ca> mak@tgivan.wimsey.com writes: >In article <kzin.721536140@cc.gatech.edu> kzin@terminus.gatech.edu (John Rudd) writes: >> >>I was just curious if there was any truth to the claim that >>I've heard about BSDI doing a port of BSD to the Sparc line, >>so that BSD lovers can avoid Solaris 2? If so, when? >> > >I've watched the appropriate groups for a week. Noone's seemed to pick up >on Rob Kolstad's keynote at the SUG Conference. So I've excerpted last >week's post in postscript herein. Note, the tantilizing noun used was >"BSD" and not "BSDI". But hey, ... where else is BSD really alive anymore? ;-) > >Signed, a proud BSDI owner. >= Bob (mak) Makowski I surely want them to do that. I bought my SUN, when SUN still cared about people like me. I don't want to get fed up with Solaris 2. If they do it, they may count me as a customer for their SUN version too. Signed, another proud BSDI owner. Mike. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-mail : mike@inftec.BE | I think that it's extraordinarly important tel : +32 2 460.46.11 | that we in computer science keep fun in Fax : +32 2 460.56.50 | computing. .... A.J. Perlis