[rescue] *BSD on Sparc?

[jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de]

On  3 Aug, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> That is not try.  I have yet to see NetBSD running on an Onyx,
> Challenge, Octane, or Indigo2, or even a lowly Indigo.
http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/
NetBSD is the world's first Open Source operating system running 
on Silicon Graphics  O2. 
[...]
2001-05-11 [...] Most notably is new support for the IP22 (Indigo2,
Indy, Challenge S)

OK. It is somewhat unfinished yet, but there is somthing. 

> Come to think of it, I've never heard of a NetBSD port to the J90 or
> EL line of machines from Cray either. 
I second the statement of Dave: A Cray is a number crunching appliance.

> It seems there is a little bit
> of work on it from S/390 machines though.
Yes, and our beloved Sridhar is one of the persons behind this. 

The missing IBM RS/6000 POWER 1 support is somthing that hurts me too.
I gave a 320 away because of this. (OK. I traded it for a VAX 4000-400
CPU and RAM.)

And don't forget: Some "idiots" started an afford to port NetBSD to the
DEC PDP 10 architecture.
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tschuess,
          Jochen

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