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Article #2367Re: Atari NetBSD 1.1 Port available
From: Graham Irvine
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00
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On Thu, 30 Nov 95 00:07:29 GMT ,Twas none other than Paul Civati who did state .... > In article <817604333.3612@grasper.demon.co.uk> ** none ** writes: > > Path: xciv.org!news.demon.co.uk!demon!grasper.demon.co.ukFrom: > > graham@grasper.demon.co.uk (Graham Irvine) > > Newsgroups: demon.ip.support.atari > Ummm your TIN compile seems to be a bit broken. :-( No I don't think it is TIN but the "homemade" transport system (using inews.mmtp) because of some trouble getting xmitnews to queue news , something about unexpected responce from server :400 <G> ...who is respsonsible for that <G> . Serious though , I have had a few problems with dbm.h and compiling the above , haven't got round to fixing it so am using this homemade effort ,works but has obviously a few loopholes in the script :-) > > please note that the ATARI version of NetBSD is also available on from , > > ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.1/atari > > this dir tree. Read The annouce , NetBSD is used extensively by Demon themsel > > and is there "operating system of choice" . > :-) > My workstation at work is a NetBSD box, and I must say I rather like it, I'm > planning to get a Sun for home when I can, and run it there too. What do you want to get an overpriced machine like that for ?? I thought you had a Pentium ?? That would make a nice NetBSD platform ... as would a HAdes (yum,Yum) or My Falcon when I the Afterburner get slotted inside .. > > 2 complete unix systems are now available to us ... who says Atari support is > > dying ! > > I look forward to the trade off between the developemnt of the two systems > > (Linux/68k & NetBSD) and the future it offers to Atari users. > Indeed, competition can't be bad. :) For Sure , and that it not too mention the plethora of GEM.SYS replacements about to materialise for diehard GEM uses who can't afford the hardware needed to run X11.Although I have noticed some of the MiNT people appearing in the Linux mailing lists recently so I don't know how long MiNT will continue to be developed at a pace ... -- ---- Atari Falcon030(32) Linux68K site ---- Graham Irvine : graham@grasper.demon.co.uk -------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112f4b,371378e9d2256291 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f4b,public From: graham@grasper.demon.co.uk (Graham Irvine) Subject: Re: Atari NetBSD 1.1 Port available Date: 1995/12/02 Message-ID: <817918387.1631@grasper.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 120706319 x-nntp-posting-host: grasper.demon.co.uk references: <817604333.3612@grasper.demon.co.uk> <817690049snz@xciv.org> organization: The Archives of Oblivion : LinuX/68k newsgroups: demon.ip.support.atari