*nix on "classic" systems

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 01:14, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Ensor wrote:
> > I was more concerned with running it on a VAX/SGI/Sun/NeXT box
>
> Your only serious consideration is netBSD, as you've found out. 
> Linux's roots were x86 so it hasn't been ported to nearly as many
> platforms.

There's platforms that Linux runs on that NetBSD doesn't, and there's 
platforms that NetBSD runs on that Linux doesn't...

For example Linux runs on 64-bit POWER/PPC machines, and (some) ESA/390 
architecture machines, which lack a NetBSD port.

I just named those two off the top of my head, because architectures 
that I've got, and which I want to be able to run a [free] UNIXy OS on.

Pat
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