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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:48:03 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Fwd: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc
Message-ID:  <v0401170ab1e67e4ed573@[128.113.24.47]>

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At 7:36 PM -0400 7/29/98, Mike wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Not sure *what* you mean by this satement.  'Real operating system'?
> Are you trying to be sarcastic?  Not much is clear other than the fact
> that you need to calm down...

I took it to mean:

There is no FreeBSD for SPARC.  We would like it to exist, but it does
not.  It is a nice wish, but it is not real.  If you want to run a real,
existent, available operating system on a range of SPARC-based machines,
you could try NetBSD.  That OS will even support some of the older SPARC
machines, while the FreeBSD/SPARC project never expected to support them.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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