>A Professor of mine has a Nec Risc Workstation, and has been nagging me 
>about getting Something other than WindoZe NT on it.  I doubt there is 
>any UniX OSes that support it.  The only one that would be the most 
>probable is NetBSD.  You Programmers are the Best! keep up the good work.
>Anyway, It has a Mips Processor which one I don't know, I think it's 
>33MhZ.  Do any Of you know if there is a NetBSD port for it, or if there 
>is any other UniX OS that would support it?  I guess getting netBSD to 
>work with the CPU wouldn't be to difficult, it's dealing with the Display 
>is the only problem I could think of...

The closest thing that would work would be NetBSD/pmax (for
DECstations -- same MIPS processor).  The thing is that all the
devices are probably NEC proprietary hardware, and it's very doubtful
there are any existing drivers that would be close to them, even if
you could get the documentation on their innards.

To put it another way: those were designed specifically to run Windows
NT, and they probably will never do anything else.  Which is a real
shame, since Microsoft is dropping MIPS support in all future NT
products.  Can you say "dead end"?

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