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From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler)
Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
Message-ID: <1992Aug19.134736.6219@news.iastate.edu>
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References: <1992Aug18.105723.13123@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:47:36 GMT
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In article <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) writes:
>
>Right, that's what I thought too.  It's just that the project is too big for
>me to do alone.
>

Well I agree with you there... the first few steps would have to be platform
specific anyway... floppy drivers, video drivers and a minimum kernel...

Think we could require 68030 or better for openers?

I was thinking development using gcc...

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Niko Schuessler               
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