>> What is port-pdp10?  Is there an attempt to port NetBSD to the PDP-10?

Yes - or at least, there's an effort underway to look into such a port.

> I had the same reaction you had.  Someone appears to have created
> that mailing list.  My guess is that either the person(s) who was
> suggesting it are young enough to be lacking perspective about the
> advisability of porting Unix to a 36-bit machine,

Hmm?  I think it's an excellent way to smoke out those hidden
assumptions about word size.

Or do you not want to eliminate such nonportabilities?

I think it would be a wicked-cool feather in NetBSD's cap.

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