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From: dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: BSD port for 32k (was: Re: The 'cost' of a '532 system.)
Keywords: cheap nsc 532
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Date: 22 Nov 88 15:56:54 GMT
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In article <17659@gatech.edu> ken@gatech.UUCP (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
>In article <8084@daver.UUCP> dlr@daver.UUCP (Dave Rand) writes:
>>Ok. Everyone WANTS BSD. I'm game to do the port. How do I get it? I know
>>how to get a Binary license for Sys V.3 (and the binary is cheap). How can
               ^^^^^^
>>I get one for BSD? Source is nice, but usually too expensive.
>>
>
>So your going to do a BSD port to the 32k?  And from the binary license, the
>source being to expensive...
>
> [stuff deleted]

Yes, I did say BINARY. Not source. There are several companies offering
NS32K System V Binaries (ZAIAZ being one of them). There are at least
two ports of BSD to the NS32K (one by the U of Toronto, I think, and
the other by Symmetric (sp?)).

Obviously, doing an entire port takes more than one person working
weekends for a month :-)

But I have worked on Binary ports more than once now, and the work is
usually quite easy, once the basic device drivers are done. And I have
done the device drivers. More than once.

So - back to the question. I know how to get a NS32K Binary for System
V. How do I get a NS32K Binary for BSD?

-- 
Dave Rand
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