Subject: Re: netbsd on cisc processor
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 03/07/2000 08:12:53
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:52:35 -0800 (PST) 
 Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> wrote:

 > > Hello,
 > > Our university is fifted in a cisc processor built in Bull DPX/2. I'd like to
 > > know if it is possible to install netbsd software on it.

Well, some Bull systems had m68k processors in them ... those certainly
qualify as CISC :-)

Do you know what *kind* of processor is in that system?

 > 
 > Seriously, though, I don't recognize that processor at all.
 > Unless it is a copy of some other machine that we do support,
 > I don't think we run on it.
 > 
 > If it already runs some sort of unix-like operating system, then you
 > can probably get a lot of the netbsd user programs to compile and run
 > on it.
 > 
 > Todd Whitesel
 > toddpw @ best.com

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>