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In article <5f6mq4$bji@smash.gatech.edu>,
Chris Ricker <gt1355b@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:

>...NetBSD and its derivative OpenBSD don't have MIPS ports (or
>even ports in progress, from what I hear).

Quite wrong. NetBSD is production-quality on the DECStation MIPS
3000 boxes, and OpenBSD claims to run on the ARCSystem MIPS 4000
boxes, if I recall correctly.

If the cheap MIPS box the original post was talking about is one
of the MIPS Magnum 4000 boxen that are going for a hundred and some
odd dollars here and there, NetBSD should be up and running on it
pretty soon. Jonathan Stone is busy re-organising NetBSD's MIPS
support at this time and integrating some ARC support. Once that's
reached a stage of substantial completion I'll buy some memory for
my Magnum 4000 and see what I can do towards that port. There's
another NetBSD developer with a Magnum 3000 (and full technical
documentation) who will be putting some work into this as well.

I've not been following the NetBSD/MIPS development over the past
couple of weeks because I've been overwhelmed with work, but if
you're interested in this, and especially if you're interested in
helping out with development, give me a ring.

Every once in a while I have little `NetBSD install parties' here
at Portal; if you've got a machine you want to install NetBSD on
(i386, Alpha, Sparc, Sun 3, or whatever) feel free to drop me
e-mail.

cjs
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