On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > > I was looking at the SETI@Home statistics today and noticed a high number
> > > of SunOS systems participating, and the thought struck me - why aren't
> > > these people running NetBSD instead? We're better, right? Modern TCP/IP
> > > stack, 64-bit clean FFS, and so on. I bet they're just not aware of us.

> Isn't SunOS 4.x the last issue with C compilers?  That may have something
> to do with it, also.

it is, but 

1) SunOS 4.x C is really old, only K&R C and is IMO useless except to
   compile gcc.

2) You can get precompiled gcc for Solaris

so I don't see this as an issue.  In fact, its just another reason I like
NetBSD.  I don't have to screw around trying to install a real C compiler.

-Dan