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David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:24:57PM -0500, Kevin M. Dulzo wrote:
> > I see no reason to exclude older machines from a port of FreeBSD as
> > many of these lunch/pizza boxes can be had rather cheaply and are quite
> > effective at accomplishing tasks.
> 
> Some disagree about this.

Given the overall quality of both NetBSD and OpenBSD on these systems, the
urgent need for a FreeBSD port is diminished greatly.


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