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Re: NetBSD, Sun 4/260, Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel P Kamalic)
Tue Jul 9 16:04:02 1996
From: Daniel P Kamalic <pocky@MIT.EDU>
To: kiev@MIT.EDU (Carl Alexander)
Cc: rmg@MIT.EDU, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 1996 13:08:04 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 16:00:08 EDT
I don't think you have to worry about afs hosing the machine mercilessly:
it's much more memory-dependent than processor-dependent. Since you have 16M
of RAM in that old thing, I think it'll be pretty usable. Especially if you
can scrounge up some more.
The problem, as far as I can see it, is figuring out how to compile the athena
stuff for NetBSDsparc. There's a SparcIPX (or IPC, I'm not completely sure)
in the SIPB office that's running what I think is Athena-ized NetBSDsparc.
Perhaps you could steal stuff of of it. Any ideas???
-Dan
