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Date:      Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:09:20 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Mike <mike@seidata.com>
Cc:        "Henry M. Pierce" <hmpierce@santorini.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc 
Message-ID:  <199807281609.JAA03485@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 09:57:02 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9807280955300.5819-100000@ns1.seidata.com> 

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People, the Sparc port is _dead_ (Sun pulled the plug a while back).

At no time was there going to be support for geriatric hardware.  If 
you want to run a real operating system, the NetBSD folks cater to just 
that sort of nostalgia.

> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Henry M. Pierce wrote:
> 
> > Hello.  I am interested in helping with the development effort
> > with the sparc port of FreeBSD with an SS1+ that was recently 
> 
> I'd also be interested in helping out in some way...  I am not sure of the
> status of this port or where to find out more information about it, but
> I'd like to put this Sparc2 to use somehow.  :)
> 
> 	-mike
> 
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