Re: Unsupported RS6k's and ofppc

Jochen Kunz <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 19:48:43 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:05:22 -0800
Chuck Silvers <[email protected]> wrote:

> well, I did fix ofppc to the point where it was running multi-user
> several years ago,
I suspect this was before I got interrested in it. (Didn't I sell a
PowerStack II to you? At that time ofppc came to my attention for
obvious reasons.)

> but it still wasn't very usable given how slow it was. I guess you
> could say it wasn't so much running as crawling multi-user.
That is why I said it is more or less an academic experiment.
Of course this changes dramatically once we get PCI / ISA attachments
and hardware interrupts.
-- 


tschüß,
       Jochen

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