Theo de Raadt [dera...@openbsd.org] wrote: > > The first developments were improvements to 32-bit sparc. >
I bought a Sun 4/110 over Usenet, ran the venerable SunOS 4.1.3, and later NetBSD. When I was 16, and a bit before Chuck and Theo setup anoncvs, or there was even an OpenBSD web site, Theo started putting his first "OpenBSD" sparc kernels on ftp.theos.com. I ran it with my NetBSD userland. The improvements to the sun 4/110 "sw" driver was dramatic, the disk went from 100KB/sec to 1.1MB/sec with DMA support. Now I had a modern system that would compile and operate current software on the internet without retrofit work (even in 1995, SunOS 4.1.3 was dated compared to NetBSD) and the disk was back to SunOS speeds! This was so cool. And here it's still going, 20 years later! I didn't even know what 20 years was...
