Subject: Re: NewbieQ: NetBSD and drivers
To: None <Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/18/1996 07:45:00
Chris_G_Demetriou@NIAGARA.NECTAR.CS.CMU.EDU  wrote:
 > > On Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:19:26 +0100 
 > >  Anders Eriksson <aer@lulea.trab.se> wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > 1) Does NetBSD support IP over ATM (or direct ATM using e.g. sockets) ?
 > > 
 > > "Not yet..."
 > > 
 > > My research group does a fair amount of work with ATM (in a WAN 
 > > context, e.g. NREN).  We run NetBSD on several SPARC systems in our lab, so 
 > > it's likely that we're going to need this capability in the not-distant 
 > > future.
 > 
 > My research group does a fair amount of work with ATM (in a LAN
 > context, e.g. multicomputing).  We're planning to run NetBSD on some
 > of next-generation reasearch testbed systems, so it's likely that
 > we'll need this capability in the not-distant future...  8-)

My research group does a fair amount of work with ATM (in a bar-hopping
context, e.g. drinking).  We're planning to run quickly from machine to
machine getting as much cash as possible, so it's likely that we'll
need more cash in the not-distant future... :-)

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