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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:50:15 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sparc port, number crunching
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> I am thinking of buying a 12-cpu ultrsparcII unit (E4500) for a
> couple of scientific computing projects I am working on.  My OS
> choices seem to be
> 1) Solaris 8, 9, or 10
> 2) NetBSD
> 3) Plan9

There was a Sparc kernel once, and some people (Chris Collins?)
have been reviving it, but I don't know that I'd want to depend on
it being ready in time to use for your app.  Perhaps Chris will
speak up.

Russ