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NetBSD 1.1 was released on November 26, 1995. It is an evolutionary release which contains over a year of changes to the kernel, user-level utilities, and documentation.
Continuing the multi-platform tradition, NetBSD has added ports to atari and mvme68k based machines. Kernel interfaces have continued to be refined, and now several subsystems and device drivers are shared among the different ports. You can look for this trend to continue.
NetBSD 1.1 has significantly enhanced the binary emulation subsystem (which includes iBCS2, Linux, OSF/1, SunOS, SVR4, Solaris and Ultrix compatibility) and several kernel subsystems have been generalized to support this more readily. The binary emulation strategy is aimed at making the emulation as accurate as possible.
NetBSD 1.1 is also the first release to see machine-independent disk striping. The concatenated disk driver (ccd), which was previously supported only by the hp300 port, has been vastly improved. Many bugs were fixed, and explicit references to device-dependent routines removed and replaced by calls to the generic "vnode operation" routines. In addition, several features were added, including partition support, dynamic configuration and unconfiguration via a user space system utility program, and virtually unlimited number of component devices.
Many new user programs have been added in NetBSD 1.1, as well, bringing it closer to our goal of supplying a complete UN*X-like environment.
NetBSD 1.1 included binaries for the following architectures:
Amiga
Atari
DEC workstations (mips based)
HP 9000/300 series
i386-family PC
m68k-based Macintosh
m68k-based MVME systems
PC532
Sun 3 workstation series
Sun SPARCstation series (sun4c)
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