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From: pml4...@rouge.usl.edu (Landry Patrick M)
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Subject: BSD 4.4 hardware requirements question
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Date: 12 Nov 90 23:31:33 GMT
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My department would like to purchase some 386 machines in the near future.
I would like to make sure that the machines will be able to run 4.4 when
it is released. Is it possible for someone "in the know" (someone at
Berkeley or a beta site) to post a list of hardware that is slated to be
supported. I am assuming it will be a list of very "standard" names but
I would like to feel a little more confident. Thanks.
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patrick
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From: ch...@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD 4.4 hardware requirements question
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Date: 21 Nov 90 15:29:48 GMT
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In article <18...@rouge.usl.edu> pml4...@rouge.usl.edu (Landry Patrick M)
writes:
>My department would like to purchase some 386 machines in the near future.
>I would like to make sure that the machines will be able to run 4.4 when
>it is released. Is it possible for someone "in the know" (someone at
>Berkeley or a beta site) to post a list of hardware that is slated to be
>supported.

Since no one else has followed up...

Nothing is `slated' to be supported.  4.4BSD will run on whatever it
has been made to run on by the time it gets released.  4.3BSD-reno
currently runs on:

	VAX series: uVAX 2 and 3 (not all configurations),
		11/730, 11/750, 11/780, 11/785, 8200, 8250,
		8600, 8650;
	Harris/Sperry/ICL `Tahoe' series: HCX-7, HCX-9, and equivalents;
	HP 9000/300;
	whatever 386 boxes Bill Jolitz has at the moment.

If you want to ensure that 4BSD runs on your machine, buy a half dozen
or so and give them to the UCB CSRG people to take home. :-)
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