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William Duke wrote:
>>William,
>> Well, I was first interested in getting it up and reviving it to see if
>>it had the specs needed for porting to it... turns out it has 540 mb
>>disk not 60 so nice, and has like 57 MB of ram (don't ask me how) but
>>anyway, since it seems no devs have said "I'd like to borrow it isn't
>>supported" I would be more than happy to put it to greater use that way,
>>but since nobody has, I will use it through serial.... It came w/ a nice
>>NEC monitor (I think 17") and so anyway... long story longer... I want
>>to do it because I can.
>>
> 
> Do it because you can...   Ya know, a few years back I did something
> just because I could, and I got myself in a whole heap of trouble for
> it.   It turned out that there were these people that didn't like what I
> was doing, and they took advantage of some unwritten laws to stop me
> doing what it was that I'm doing.
> 
> Now, after several years of doing nothing, I'm ready to do it again...
> Only this time, I'm not just doing it because I can, I'm doing it
> because it has to be done.   And while some may see me as the crazy one,
> most see genius, because those who are crazy enough to think that they
> can change the world, are the ones that do.
> 
> Sorry, I had to take this opportunity to exploit an old Apple
> commercial.
> 
> Anyway, I know what you mean.   I first started playing with NetBSD and
> Linux for something to do...  I wanted something different to break the
> monotiny and boredom of everyday computing existence.   It turns out
> that I happen to prefer *nix better than anything else that I've
> previously used, so it all worked out for the best.
> 
>

william,
 we seem like very similiar people. on another note, i am getting a sun
sparc 5, sparc 1, and sparc 1+ for free this weekend. all religious bsd
vs linux aside, what is the FASTEST free os for these old beasts?
(actually i am excited about the sparc 5, it ain't that old of a beast..
:) )

nick
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