[geeks] AOpen makes SPARC notebooks?

[Phil Stracchino]

der Mouse wrote:
>>>I'd like a non-x86 laptop, particularly a SPARC, but trying to use a
>>>sparc64 one would involve so many other problems that I consider it
>>>more of a pain than not using a SPARC laptop at all.
>>
>>Would you enlarge upon that latter comment?
> 
> 
> All my own machines run rather old NetBSD - 1.4T, dating from February
> 2000.

Ah, that's the crucial piece of data right there.

> NetBSD 1.4T does not really support sparc64 (I've tried to use it on
> U1s and U2s, and while it sort-of works, it's only sort-of).  So a
> sparc64 laptop would mean I'd have to either make it run something
> different from the rest of my machines, or I'd have to move everything
> to another OS.

I tried FreeBSD on one of my Sparcs, only to find that none of the
available terminal types for the installer would work on a Sun console.
 Since I didn't have a serial-console cable at the time or a machine I
could usefully connect one to, that pretty much ruled out using FreeBSD
on that machine.  OpenBSD, however, Just Worked.


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