Subject: Re: Community Issues ** LONG **
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/22/1999 10:26:38
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Ken Nakata wrote:

# Just out of curiosity.  I've heard Sun has done a port of FreeBSD to
# SPARC.  Is it true?  When I heard it, I thought it was a shame they
# didn't just take NetBSD/sparc.  Would it be possible they didn't know
# any better than porting an OS when there's a perfectly fine OS already
# running on their platform? 

	There was not a NetBSD/ultraSPARC at the time.  From what I read,
they were doing it out of customer demand, which was FreeBSD.

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