19 May
2015
19 May
'15
6:55 p.m.
Clem Cole scripsit:
NetBSD wanted to take the CRSG token make a solid
system for research that
ran everywhere - i.e. lots of different target HW - 68K many different
vendors, Vax, Power, sparc, much less x86. In fact, they would take back
from FreeBSD a lot of the 386 work eventually.
The Hannum interview says that portability wasn't the focus in the *very*
beginning, and that getting NetBSD running on different architectures
was because they had a lot of different architectures around. So it
was making a virtue of what started out as necessity.
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