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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Date: 19 Aug 92 09:39:37 GMT
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In article <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) writes:
>Since most of the source is written in C, I believe that most of the time
>is going to be spent writing drivers for disks, displays, etc...

Right, that's what I thought too.  It's just that the project is too big for
me to do alone.

>What platform did you have in mind?

Atari TT or Falcon (68030).  But what I consider most important is the fact
that - when done right - the binaries of all 680x0 implementations will be 
interchangeable, just like the Minix versions for Atari, Mac and Amiga.

-- Volker
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