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Add a new news item to note some of the momentum that the sparc64 port

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has gained since the last update on March 10th.  Point to the
installable snapshot on the FTP sites.  Also, correct some typos while
I'm here.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml,v 1.9 2002/03/13 13:18:36 murray Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/platforms/sparc.sgml,v 1.10 2002/08/14 17:44:48 blackend Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD/sparc64 Project">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-sparc'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "../includes.sgml"> %includes;]>
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<h3><a name="news">Latest News</a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p><strong>4 October, 2002</strong> : Impressive progress has
been made since the last update. A fully installable snapshot
is available from <a
href="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64">ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64</a>.
Thanks to the relatively cheap hardware available from Sun, sparc64
has become the most popular 64-bit platform for FreeBSD
5.0-CURRENT. It is expected that FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE will fully
support sparc64.</p></li>
<li><p><strong>10 March, 2002</strong> : Perl works. Thanks to an in
depth bug report from Garrett Wollman we were able to identify a bug
in the fpu emulator which was causing problems bootstrapping
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attempted, for the first time in the history of the port, to
organize information, developers, and tasks into a structure that
can only be known as project management. If not for the 98-99
holiday season and a few overspoken individuals on the mailing list,
holiday season and a few outspoken individuals on the mailing list,
Paolo would have continued on. During his tenure, a number of
people stepped up to work on the older Sun SPARC architectures.
This did cause a slight chasm in the project, and many of the more
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<p>It's right <a
href="http://people.FreeBSD.org/~obrien/freebsd-sparc/oldfaq.html">here</a>.
The old FAQ is SME-centeric, and sun4u-specific. These traits do
The old FAQ is SME-centric, and sun4u-specific. These traits do
not reflect the current state of the port, since SME has pulled
their official support from the port and the majority of the
development equipment now consists of older Sun SPARC hardware.