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1.1       deraadt    16: <h2>OpenBSD/pica</h2>
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        !            19: <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
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1.1       deraadt    22: The early history is not very clear. Apparently the first work was
                     23: done by CMU as part of their Mach project.  The initial hardware was
                     24: the DEC R2000/R3000-based Decstations.  This code was later used by
                     25: both the Sprite and BSD groups.  The 4.4BSD code, known as the `pmax'
                     26: port, was made freely available in mid '93.  It was merged into the
                     27: NetBSD tree by a variety of people, but has never been very stable,
                     28: reliable, or complete.  Compiler toolkit problems have plagued the
                     29: port because the standard a.out executable format is an imperfect
                     30: match to the MIPS architecture.
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1.1       deraadt    32:
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1.1       deraadt    34: Per Fogelstrom became familiar with the code after porting it to a
                     35: home-built IDT R3081 based board.  Subsequently he added R4400 support
                     36: when porting it to the MIPS R4400 Acer PICA board.  Willowglen
                     37: Singapore purchased a second PICA board for Theo de Raadt so that he
                     38: could improve the port for use as a development system for an internal
1.4     ! fn         39: project.  Since then Theo and Per have had ethernet and a few other
1.1       deraadt    40: small projects working.
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1.1       deraadt    42:
                     43: <p>
                     44: The Acer PICA is a dead platform.  Acer no longer makes the machine,
                     45: but even worse the machines are very rare.  The main reason to work on
                     46: this port is because there are a multitude of other MIPS-based
                     47: machines -- eventually this code will be useful on another machine.
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1.1       deraadt    49:
                     50: <p>
                     51: The people working the most on OpenBSD/pica currently consists of
1.4     ! fn         52: Per Fogelstrom, and Theo de Raadt. Of course, others are very welcome!
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        !            56: <h3><strong>Where to get it?</strong></h3>
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1.2       deraadt    59: Send mail to <a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com>Theo de Raadt</a> and
                     60: <a href=mailto:pefo@openbsd.org>Per Fogelstrom</a>.
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