Subject: Sparc port names (was Re: Memory leak?)
To: None <greywolf@captech.com>
From: Aaron Brown <abrown@eecs.harvard.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/10/1996 14:45:14
On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Open Carefully -- Contents Under Pressure wrote:

> By the way, having NetBSD/sparc is misleading; sparc architectures include
> sun4, sun4m, sun4c, sun4d, and sun4u.  They are all considered "sparc".
> I think we should consider moving "sparc" to "sun4c" in order to keep the
> architectures straight.

Actually, the intent is to merge the sun4m port into the sun4/sun4c port, 
so one kernel will boot on any sun4/4c/4m sparc machine. Thus 
NetBSD/sparc seems like a fine name for now, since there are no 
sun4d/sun4u ports yet.

--Aaron