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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a 486?
Date: 6 Mar 94 16:45:40 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <NAWAZ921.94Mar5184635@lava.cs.uidaho.edu> nawaz921@cs.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) writes:

>In article <2l5f5lINNglq@uwm.edu> jr12@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (James Richard Leu) writes:

>   I currently run linux on my 486 at home... Can NetBSD be run on a Intel
>   based proccessor?  If not what arch's does it run on?

>   Please responde to jr12@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu..
>   Thanks in advance

>you could try FreeBSD...

Or NetBSD-0.9.  Of course it runs on 386's, 486's and Pentiums, as
well as Amigas, Macs, Sun Sparcs, DECstations, etc.  Look on
agate.berkeley.edu, gatekeeper.dec.com, or ftp.iastate.edu (among
other sites) for a NetBSD distribution.

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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