Subject: Re: Question about sun4 & sun4m availability & also performance
To: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/06/1994 06:59:37
> The problem is I have
> sun4, sun4c & sun4m machines so I wondered if there is any
> approximate date for NetBSD on the sun4 & sun4m platforms?

It is running on the following machines:
	all sun4c models
	the sun4/300

Chuck and I are trying to wrangle a donation of a sun4/200 motherboard
so that we can attack that model next.  The 4/100 is a logical next
step after that.

As well, I have an SS5, but am too busy this month to work on that.
(I have a deal with my boss; if the software I work on is demoable I
go to Usenix for free. Pretty simple choice.)

> 	If its quite some time away, should I move the 'sun4c's to NetBSD 1.0
> 	now? will I notice much performance change from sunos 4.1.3u1?

It is slower. In particular, a shared library caching problem isn't
quite solved yet, and that has an affect.

You might want to try one machine, to get a feel for it.  It is a fine
BSD ansi/posix development platform.