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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!wdcpop.dra.net!news.dra.com!laplaza.org!news From: xyzmats@laplaza.org (Mats Wichmann) 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: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:06:52 GMT Organization: La Plaza TeleCommunity -- Taos, NM Lines: 22 Message-ID: <33ca6714.19979127@news.laplaza.org> References: <01bc8aee$442bc520$81e3e996@leo.esac.pacbell.com> <5q1g28$e42@news-central.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp02.questa.laplaza.org X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mips:5537 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44427 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3696 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6257 On 10 Jul 1997 02:06:00 GMT, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote: >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. I think these were different machines. The 2200 was a little-endian-only box that was only intended to be an NT machine. I was introduced briefly in the US, then pulled back to Japan, then pulled entirely. The EWS 4800 line runs UNIX, and is indeed marketed only in Asia Pacific. Mats Wichmann To reply remove the "xyz" from the address xyzmats@laplaza.org