On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Justin Stringfellow - Sun UK wrote:

> 
> > Pardon...
> > 
> > I'm a bit new around here -- I'm a NetBSD developer who's just started 
> > hacking ARM machines. I've always thought the name of the operating
> > system was NetBSD. It seems the term "RiscBSD" is rather strongly
> > embedded in the culture around here, but I'm rather surprised at the
> > usage. All other NetBSD ports are known like NetBSD/Alpha,
> > NetBSD/hp300, NetBSD/i386, etc.

The port is indeed now called NetBSD/arm32 ... but in the old days before
it was merged into the NetBSD source tree proper it was called 'RiscBSD',
and it's stuck ... this will change gradually I suppose ...

> > 
> > Perry
> 
> Welcome to the world of Acorn, Perry.
> As always, we like to go tantalisingly close to complete compatability with 
> everyone else, and then stop short (try fitting normal simms to a RiscPC, 
> or maybe an IDE disk, for a good illustration). It helps us pretend we can 

Err, yes. Have you had problems with this? (32Mb simm and Quantum Fireball
4.3Gb fitted recently to this machine, no problem ... along with an ATAPI 
zip drive that won't work under RiscOS yet but will under NetBSD
(hurray!))

> look down on other platforms from our ivory tower while in reality they are 
> sneaking further away into the distance...

There are a few people that do this ... the rest of us are glad that there
is something like a NetBSD port available for the machine, as it brings us
the possibility of using the same software as everyone else at last!

> If I were you I'd just ignore us like everyone else. It does work.

That's true :(

Cheers,

Bill (using pine 3.95q on a p133 running Solaris 2.6 (IIRC!))