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From: Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking UNIX for NEC RiscServer 2200
Date: 10 Jul 1997 02:06:00 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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In comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Tom Carney <tjcarne@esac.pacbell.com> wrote:
: I have heard rumors that there is someone who has a working port of netBSD
: for this machine but it hasn't been released. I would be very interested in
: obtaining this as we know M$ has orphaned this machine. I will have to port
: this myself if not, but there is no use reinventing the wheel ; ).

NEC is a strange company. They marketed these machines here with NT and
in Japan with SVR4.

I had one of these running SVR4 when I worked at Progress Software.
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