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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!fauern!fauna!camelot!husemann From: husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann) Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??] References: <1992Aug20.173817.21681@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> Message-ID: <BtBMwq.411@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Sender: news@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:48:25 GMT Lines: 21 tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes: >In fact if I had an hp300, I could just about open the can, heat and eat. >I get the impression the guys at Berkeley actually had hp300's on their >desks, but I could just be starting a rumor. As far as I know they do. (I do, too 8=). I'm running pre-alpha 4.4 BSD on it --- I think the CSRG also put in the support for 68040s. >But this doesn't mean it will be easy. If it was easy, I would drop it >and go find something hard to do. :-) Once the unencumbered version is out I think it should be easier to port to other 68k machines than it was for Bill & Lynne to port to the 386/486 architecture. Dirk Eunuchs [u'nuks] is not a trademark of AT&T. ---