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- I hate to put a damper on the excitment over Sun3 compatibility, but don't
- forget about licensing. Several of the tools mentioned so far are licensed
- products, so we cannot legally send them to other people or use them on
- extra machines beyond the normal licensing. I would hate to see our NetBSD
- efforts endangered by license violations. Just a gentle reminder that there
- are rules in the world of software.
-
- >
- > Excerpts from internet.computing.netbsd: 21-Nov-93 Re: X11 and xhost
- > Markus Wild@eunet.ch (521*)
- >
- > > Framemaker would be even more interesting when it could be run natively,
- > > with the sun3 emulation.. ever tried?:-)
- >
- > > -Markus
- >
- >
- > Sorry, I don't believe we have framemaker for Sun-3 on campus. Maple V
- > binaries for Sun-3 work great though!!
- >
- > I just installed most of the Maple V distribution and it ran with no
- > problems whatesoever. (Only the console based version, though... see
- > below)
- >
- > With the ado over X11, I think your Sun-3 binary compatibility options
- > have been overshadowed. I'm mightilly impressed, though. I haven't got
- > a chance to try much, but everything I've tried works. Matlab started
- > up no problem, I don't know how to use it though so I couldn't do much
- > with it. :) I also ran a Sun-3 version of mwm (Motif Window Manager)
- > under NetBSD-X11. I'd love to try some fancy Sun X stuff, but with only
- > 4 MB, I'm already swapping out memory to move the mouse... :)
- >
- > We've got a lot of Sun 3 stuff lying around, if there are any requests
- > to try things. My next mission is to get kerberos working, as
- > everything here at CMU requires authentication. Hey, what do you think
- > the chances are of Transarc's dynamic kernel loader patching the NetBSD
- > kernel with Sun 3 andrew file system code? You never know....
- >
- > Regards,
- > Nathan
- >
- >
- >
- >
- >
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