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Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 14:36:20 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD for SGI
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"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> Your best bet is to run NetBSD on it.  Various FreeBSD/mips projects
> have failed to get off the ground and NetBSD/mips support is quite
> strong these days.  If you still want FreeBSD, then getting
> NetBSD/sgimips running on it first might be a good first step.

This despite the fact that FreeBSD would be ideal for Sibytes
cards (among other uses), which are based on MIPS processors.

-- Terry

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