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Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer
To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles)
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> >  As far as the Cobalt stuff goes, NetBSD runs on the x86 RAQ and
> >  Qube things, so getting FreeBSD going would probably be trivial,
> >  if someone hasn't done it already.
> 
> 	I'd be interested in hearing more about this, if anyone has any 
> information.

Apparently, the Cobalt MIPS runs NetBSD, but the x86 has custom
firmware to load the kernel, and the port to that is in progress
and has not yet been completed.

Sorry for the premature "it works".

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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