[rescue] Linux

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 10:53 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
>> It's like folks who want to get *BSD running on PDP-10 iron. WHY?????!
> That is somthing different. The idea hehind the PDP-10 port is not
> to have NetBSD on the PDP-10 for use. It is to test NetBSDs
> portability. It is perhaps the same reason why people are
> porting plain UNIX V7 to the 80286.

   Also I'd say there's a lot to be learned about portable programming 
by porting to a relatively unusual 36-bit architecture.

         -Dave

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