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I seem to recall good support for PC98[0][1] was seminal. Our friend ‘washbear has notes[2], which might be touching on (eg) KAME[3] too. [0] https://en.wikipe

by bch 2y ago

I seem to recall good support for PC98[0][1] was seminal. Our friend ‘washbear has notes[2], which might be touching on (eg) KAME[3] too. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98 [1] https://hackaday.com/2023/12/26/the-strange-world-of-japans-pc-98-computer-ecosystem/ https://hackaday.com/2023/12/26/the-strange-world-of-japans-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375371 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME_project

hapless 2y ago
PC98 support grew from the facts on the ground: NetBSD and friends had Japanese-language mailing lists and irc channels, for decades If you were a Japanese enthusiast who wanted to have a "real UNIX" on readily available hardware, NetBSD and FreeBSD were relatively more accessible