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From: David Hogan dhog@cs.su.oz.au
Subject: sparc fileservers
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1993 23:32:30 -0500

> From:	Arnold Robbins <arnold@cc.gatech.edu>
> To:	9fans@cse...
> 
> Heck, can any of the plan 9 stuff run on the newer sparcs like the LX,
> or the big MPs like the 690 or sparc center 1000 and 2000?  (Junk Solaris
> for a real OS... :-)

Not without rewriting mmu.c.  I understand that the mmu in the
newer sparcs is based on the Sparc Reference mmu, whereas the
mmu in the older sparcs is a lot closer to the Sun 3 mmu.  I've
also heard that the dma controller is different.