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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!tls From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??] Message-ID: <1992Aug19.195413.26869@panix.com> Date: 19 Aug 92 19:54:13 GMT References: <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <1992Aug19.134736.6219@news.iastate.edu> Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC Lines: 24 In article <1992Aug19.134736.6219@news.iastate.edu> niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) writes: >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? Do that, and you lose all the old Sun 3s knocking around out there for cheap. Of course, supporting both the Sun 3 and the 68030 could be a pain in the ass, with the different MMU and all. On the other hand, I dont think it would be so hard to support the 020 and the 851 MMU if you were going to support the 030 -- isn't the 030 MMU just a subset of the 851? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM "Oh, you have wounded me! I have very few prejudices, actually. The biggest problem is that I am intolerant of fools. That is why I have such a low tolerance level for Libertarians." -- Jim McMaster