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From: kenn@eden.rutgers.edu (Ken Nakata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a Mac SE?
Date: 2 Dec 1995 17:04:03 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
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raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares) writes:
> I have recently saved from the dumpster one of those old Mac SEs
>(14MHz 68000). Knowing that its max onboard RAM is 4MB and provided I
They are ~7.8MHz 68000, actually (unless of course they are modified).
>had a large enough hard drive, would the Mac port of NetBSD run on such
>beast?
Nope. Any 68000 (I mean, not 68020, 68030, or 68040) Macintosh will
never run NetBSD.
Your option is to get SE/30 logic boards (just like I did), but it's
probably an expensive option, and you may be better off spending the
money to get IIci, IIvx or something faster and more expandable.
ken
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