Subject: Re: Someone willing to mirror R6 and Mosaic binaries?
To: Andrew Carey <careya@peak.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 05/30/1996 17:45:30
On Thu, 30 May 1996 17:05:20 -0700
Andrew Carey <careya@peak.org> wrote:
> I've put up some hp300 binaries for ftp, however they will be
> disappearing after tomorrow. Would someone out there mind puting
> them up somewhere else?
I'm downloading them now, and will put them on ftp.NetBSD.ORG tomorrow.
<nostalgia>
BTW, in case some folks don't know, the PEAK/CSOS hp300 stuff is going
away is because Oregon State University is shutting down the
University-supported Public Electronic Access to Knowledge. There are
several (lots, oh, lots) hp300s running NetBSD at PEAK/CSOS ... or,
rather, there were. When I was a volunteer there almost 3 years ago, we
(PEAK) had one of the first NetBSD/hp300 systems (I think it was Charles
Hannum, John Brezak, Herb Peyerl, and Jason Downs and I).
Anyhow, Downs and I bootstrapped NetBSD from a system running Utah's
HP-BSD on a 320 with 7.5MB of RAM (jacobs.csos.orst.edu). This was
before shared libs worked, disklabels didn't work right on the hp300 (esp
HP-IB, which was all we had at the time), etc.
The 1.0 release of NetBSD/hp300 was built on a PEAK/CSOS system.
Anyhow, I'm kind of sad to see it go away, and I wish lots of luck to
John Sechrest's _new_ commercial PEAK venture! Score some hp300s from
somewhere, John!
</nostalgia>
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