Subject: Re: Why people know what FreeBSD and OpenBSD are, but not NetBSD.
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Frank Warren <clovis@home.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 12/08/1999 11:15:44
>On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Frank Warren wrote:
>> I can tell you that IBM's Network Computer was brought up on NetBSD. I
do
>> not know if they are shipping it, however, or have retreated to their
OS/2.
>
>What hardware is this - i386? Is it shipping yet? Any pointers?
Yes, this is i386 (Pentium to be exact). Linux, oddly enough, wouldn't boot
because, er, well, it needed a weird loader :-) It is in production now.
But there was talk of going to OS/2 on the box. Knowing IBM, they may have
done this.