[cctalk] Old UNIX Systems

Attitudes like yours are why NetBSD is driving itself into the ground. You don't see it in mass-market computer stores so it doesn't exist, or some such. I know of someone - within the last, oh, year or so - with whom I was corresponding. This person is (was) developing new hardware with a '386 CPU on it. Brand new chips. Quite possibly a 386 core in a larger chip, I don't know, but to software it's an 80386 CPU. He was talking about what OS to use and mentioned NetBSD - and was surprised, a bit shocked, and a bit discouraged when I pointed out that NetBSD had seen no point in "keeping [that] legacy". I don't know whether he's going with some other OS or using older NetBSD or what, but there's one concrete case in which NetBSD shot itself in the foot by dropping 386 support. Presumably NetBSD doesn't care - which is one more reason I see it going skydiving without a parachute. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B