New York, NY — (press release excerpt) — Wasabi Systems today announced completion of a port of NetBSD to IBM's PowerPC 405GP processor. The IBM PowerPC 405GP is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) system-on-a-chip (SOC) product that features an integrated PowerPC embedded processor core with a rich… set of on-chip peripherals. NetBSD is an open source BSD Unix operating system which offers full Unix functionality across a wide range of hardware platforms and processor architectures. The 405GP port is today being committed to the source tree of the NetBSD Project and is available for download under the terms of the open source BSD license.

 
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