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OpenBSD Requests UltraSPARC III Documentation

Posted by michael on from the please-kind-sir dept.

An anonymous submitter writes "OpenBSD wants to run on all hardware. They've asked Sun for documentation on the UltraSPARC III processors over and over, but been stonewalled. Theo recently asked users to talk to Sun about this issue. A fairly complete thread archive can be found here. The real kicker is that Sun has released this documentation through an NDA to Linux developers..."

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  1. all hardware? by tps12 · · Score: 3, Funny

    When will they port it to my bandsaw?

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    Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
  2. But... by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does Sun have to with BeOS?

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    Why not fork?
  3. Re:Their can be only one BSD by iggymanz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry, in the mid 90's Sun switched from BSD with System VR4 extensions (a.k.a. SunOS) to a microthreaded System V R4 with BSD extensions (Solaris 2.5 & up). Of course, Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7 and 8 are also called SunOS 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 (which is also Solaris 2.7), and 5.8 (which is also Solaris 2.8). Gotta love the way Sun's marketing power adds that zing by skipping version numbers. And they also do it with hardware, the Sparc 3 actually sold as the Sparc 5, and then the Sparc 4 introduced after the 5 (which should have been 3) And the marketing department ran out of steam after having Sparc, Hypersparc, and Ultrasparc and couldn't think of any more names so they just then went UltraSparc II, IIi, III

    *pop* the overfed BSD troll explodes and gooey troll glop drips from the ceiling - wasn't that fun!