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        !             2: <head>
        !             3: <title>OpenBSD/pica</title>
        !             4: <h2>OpenBSD/pica</h2>
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        !             6: <h3><hr>
        !             7: <strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
        !             8:
        !             9: The early history is not very clear. Apparently the first work was
        !            10: done by CMU as part of their Mach project.  The initial hardware was
        !            11: the DEC R2000/R3000-based Decstations.  This code was later used by
        !            12: both the Sprite and BSD groups.  The 4.4BSD code, known as the `pmax'
        !            13: port, was made freely available in mid '93.  It was merged into the
        !            14: NetBSD tree by a variety of people, but has never been very stable,
        !            15: reliable, or complete.  Compiler toolkit problems have plagued the
        !            16: port because the standard a.out executable format is an imperfect
        !            17: match to the MIPS architecture.
        !            18:
        !            19: Per Fogelstrom became familiar with the code after porting it to a
        !            20: home-built IDT R3081 based board.  Subsequently he added R4400 support
        !            21: when porting it to the MIPS R4400 Acer PICA board.  Willowglen
        !            22: Singapore purchased a second PICA board for Theo de Raadt so that he
        !            23: could improve the port for use as a development system for an internal
        !            24: project.  Since then Theo and Per have gotten ethernet and a few other
        !            25: small projects working.
        !            26:
        !            27: <p>
        !            28: The Acer PICA is a dead platform.  Acer no longer makes the machine,
        !            29: but even worse the machines are very rare.  The main reason to work on
        !            30: this port is because there are a multitude of other MIPS-based
        !            31: machines -- eventually this code will be useful on another machine.
        !            32:
        !            33: <p>
        !            34: The people working the most on OpenBSD/pica currently consists of
        !            35: Per Fogelstrom, and Theo de Raadt. Of course others are very welcome!
        !            36:
        !            37: <p>
        !            38: <h3><hr>
        !            39: <strong>Where to get it?</h3></strong>
        !            40: Send mail to <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a>.
        !            41:
        !            42: <hr><a href=/><img src=icons/back.gif></a>
        !            43: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>