> arnold@cc.gatech.edu (Arnold Robbins)  wrote:
>  > We have a lab full of these things that we'd like to run netbsd on (for
>  > teaching classes), and we'd need X windows.  Once X is up, we have motif
>  > source and could hopefully compile and run that on top (mainly for the
>  > mwm look and feel).

Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca> writes:
> err; I think you want to keep in mind that the system is not even
> self-hosting yet... ie: You're lucky it runs at all at this point.
> 
> You want to learn to walk before you put your skates on to play hockey.

Whoo boy, don't I know that.  I guess the question is how stable is the
pmax port of netbsd?  I suspect that the machine independent parts are
pretty stable.  The time frame I'm looking at is over the next 4 - 8 weeks
or so.  My impression from having been on the list for a week or two is
that a lot of the little nit-picky things are holding the pmax kernel up, and
that getting a binary dist going is mostly a SMOP for lack of time.

If the people actively developing on the pmax want to say "gee this is really
a bad idea" I'd love to hear that, it'll save me wasting my time...

Thanks,

Arnold