Subject: Re: DN4500 - Apollo - Is there a BSD
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/22/1997 14:47:32
On Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:59:51 +0100 (MET) 
 Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

 > Periodically I'm asking (since I'm presently fighting with two
 > machines here running DOMAIN_OS 10.3):
 > 
 > Is there some (alpha) version of NetBSD available for this type
 > of hardware? 

*sigh*  The first NetBSD/apollo question of the year... :-)

 > I really would love to get hands on it and a half year
 > ago someone was hinting that there was work underway on it.

Someone has been working on it off and on for some time, but it's a
matter of finding a sufficient block of time (which can sometimes be
hard when you own your own business, etc.) to finish it off.

My DN3500 is also idle at the moment; I've wanted to finish the bootblocks
for it for a while now, but alas...

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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