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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
February 12, 2003 01:17
Subject:
Re: any NetBSDers here?
Message ID:
20030212091724.GH31648@kosh.hut.fi
> >A pmax machine _upgraded_?  Do you have a time machine that will take
> >_the rest of the world_ back to 1990? :-)
> >
>  ...
> Heheh, I meant I will be upgrading the version of NetBSD to one with 
> real pthreads. I don't see a need to upgrade the hardware, it works 
> very nice ;-). It even builds Encode in less than 2 hours!

I have fond memories of pmax, I had a DECstation as my workstation for
a couple of years.  Do you feel like installing Ultrix, we have not had
Ultrix smoke testing for years? :-)

-- 
Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special
biologist word we use for 'stable'.  It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen

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