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    <h3>Introduction</h3>

    <p>&os;/&arch.pc98; is a port of &os; which aims to run
      on the NEC PC-98x1 (pc98) architecture.
      The project's goal is to make &os;/&arch.pc98; work
      the same as FreeBSD on other architectures.
      Most of the kernel source is already included in the FreeBSD source tree
      and most of the userland utilities built from the source work fine.</p>

    <h3>Status</h3>

    <p>&os;/&arch.pc98; is a <a
      href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/archs.html">
      Tier 2</a> architecture at the time of 9.0-RELEASE.  Although
      this was a Tier 1 for a long time since 5.0-RELEASE, it was
      downgraded because of some technical reason.</p>

    <h3>&os;/&arch.pc98; Hardware Notes</h3>

    <a href="&base;/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/index.html">&rel.head;-CURRENT
      Hardware Notes</a>

    <h3>What Needs To Be Done</h3>

    <ul>
      <li>Refine resource management system to support discontinuous resources.</li>

      <li>Restore the PC-9801-86 sound card support.</li>

      <li>Restore the MECIA pcmcia controller support.</li>

      <li>Support SMP machines.</li>

      <li>Support the SASI controller.</li>

      <li>Rewrite boot[12] to support the ELF binary format.</li>
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    <h3>&os;/&arch.pc98; Related Links</h3>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/pc98/index.html.en">FreeBSD(98) Project</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://www.nisoc.or.jp/~karl/freebsd-pc98/">Unofficial guide to FreeBSD(98) by karl (Japanese)</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://www32.ocn.ne.jp/~chi/FreeBSD/">Chi's personal notes on FreeBSD(98) (Japanese)</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~kato/pc98.html">Kato's page</a></li>
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