yeesh..... if you got a pentium just get linux and run it on there....or
get the real bsd.....www.linux.org....heheh...



>On Wed, Jun 11, 1997 at 05:42:33PM -0500, Bob Nestor wrote:
>> 1) Floppy support was a little touchy. Some NetBSD disks were difficult
>> to read.
>
>We have always had problems reading NetBSD and MS-DOS floppies on real
>i386 hardware as well.  Sometimes it takes _many_ floppy drives to
>get NetBSD installed on  anew system because the FS floppy just can't
>be read (yeah, tried writing it on several machines).  I can't believe
>the pc floppy drives are _that_ bad - is there some room for improvement
>in the floppy driver, perhaps?
>
>> Can't say that it ran lightening fast or even anywhere near the speed of
>> NetBSD/mac68k on my old Mac, but it was a real hoot to see NetBSD up and
>> running on my PowerMac.
>
>Well, emulation that good brings only one thing into my mind: I wish I
>could run windoze and nt under NetBSD :-I  I just received another
>pentium which I'll have to devote to running '95 - how I wish I could
>run those applications under my favourite OS :-(  (Yes, I know WINE,
>but it can't run any of the applications I need (Power-Logic, Power-PCB,
>Minato device programmer)).
>
>Nice to know that macs can do all that now, tho.
>
>  -jm


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