"HappyMeal"?!?

1s/.*/What the HELL is &/p

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> From: 	George Herbert[SMTP:gherbert@Axil.COM]
> Sent: 	Tuesday 13 May 1997 1538
> To: 	abrown@eecs.harvard.edu; eeh@one-o.com
> Cc: 	James.Graham@Schwab.COM; port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: 	Re: linux has pa risc support
> 
> > However, the SBus architecture is
> > similar and the Ultra 1 models 140 and 170 (not to be mistaken for
> 140E,
> > 170E and 200E) use most of the same devices as sun4m machines.
> 
> Right; a definite first step in a port would be to get the sun4u
> kernel stuff working on a Ultra 1 type machine with the machio/slavio
> IO instead of HappyMeal, which hasn't got a driver yet that I know of.
> 
> > A 32-bit sun4u port is probably only a little more work than the
> sun3x
> > port.  A 64-bit port, such as what the Linux guys are claiming, has
> > compiler and toolchain issues and is therefore much more difficult.
> 
> I think, but am not sure, that the 64-bit UltraSPARC gcc version
> that Sun had Cygnus do has now been rolled into the public
> GCC code and is available to anyone.
> 
> -george william herbert
> Axil Computers
> gherbert@axil.com
>