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The OpenBSD/sgi port has its roots in the <a href="arc.html">OpenBSD/arc</a>

port created early in the OpenBSD history. Arc support was rather soon

discontinued due to the lack of interest and availability of decent hardware.

The OpenBSD Mips support has since then been supported outside the OpenBSD

project.

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As SGI hardware has become affordable and easy to come by, interest

Eventually SGI hardware became more affordable and obtainable, and interest

for an SGI port in the tree has increased.

for an SGI port in the tree increased.

The final piece, a working 64 bit toolchain, eventually became available and

allowed the 64 bit SGI OpenBSD port to appear in 2004.

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Hardware support was initially limited to the O2 workstations. Efforts

to port to more systems did not really start until 2008, where the first

Octane support parts were introduced. This work was completed in 2009

with support for Origin family systems as well, allowing OpenBSD to be

the first free operating system to run on the Fuel workstations, and later

the first free operating system to run on the Fuel workstations, and even

on Origin 350 servers.

later, also on Origin 350 servers.

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