Re: Sun 3/60 problems

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From: Kevin P. Neal
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 1996 00:00

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wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) wrote:

>There is a NetBSD port to Sun 360, but not Sun 3/80.
>I believe the rumor was that scsi driver was not terrific
>( this impression is about a year old.) I tried it.
>It didn't seem to offer any advantages over Sunos 4.1.1_U1.

>However, it is source, with some documentation therefore of
>the hardware on Sun3's.

>Clarence Wilkerson

Hmmmm. There is no officially announced port of NetBSD to the Sun 3/x
system. This means the 3/80 and the 3/4xx machines.

There is a port underway. I'm told that right now the kernel panics
and drops into the debugger during it's startup. Hey, that's
something. 

Also, I might have heard people say that NetBSD/Sun3 is faster than
SunOS. Maybe. I'm not sure, I haven't tried it myself.
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From: kpneal@pobox.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 problems
Date: 1996/10/04
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