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To: Ian Logan <ian@nmsu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port 
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 18:13:19 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> from the Ultra's, in other words they'll share alot of the same code. I
> don't see any reason why 4m & 4u support couldn't happen in parallel :-)
> 	Ian aka the guy wanting to write the 4m code.

I'm not trying to actively discourage such efforts, and if you're
really wanting to hack support for the 4m then by all means, please do
so.  I was simply trying to stem the tide of "Cool!  When's this all
going to work on my SS5 clone!" sorts of questions before Jason's even
gotten started on the principal objective. :)

					Jordan