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.\" $NetBSD: whatis,v 1.20 2004/06/17 08:01:36 mbw Exp $
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.Nx \*V
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is the eigth major release for the \*M.
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.Pp
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Some (but not all!) notable \*M-specific improvements include:
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.(bullet
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Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) support has finally been completed.
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Most SuperSPARC-I, SuperSPARC-II, and hyperSPARC CPU modules will work
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properly in SMP models.
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.It
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A longstanding sun4c MMU bug has been squashed. sun4c models should be
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more stable and SPARCstation 1, SPARCstation 1+, and Sun IPC models should
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run substantially faster.
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.It
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The release of X11 distributed with the \*M port has been upgraded from
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XFree86 3.3.6 to Xfree86 4.4.0.
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.It
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Improvements in PCMCIA support.
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.It
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Support for ZX and TZX framebuffers (a.k.a leo).
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.It
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Support for JavaStations.
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.bullet)
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.Pp
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.Nx \*V
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on \*M is, as usual, also fully backward compatible with old
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.Nx*M
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binaries, so you don't need to recompile all your local programs
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provided you set the appropriate binary compatibility options in your
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kernel configuration.
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