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From: "news.acns.nwu.edu" <"usman"@nwu.edu (Usman Muzaffar)>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: what about an old SE MAC
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:00:51 -0600
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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Berni Ernst wrote:
> 
> Hi there !
> I can get an old MAC calles SE (nothing more than SE). Will
> this machine to be able to run NetBSD ?
> 
> I read that type SE/30 is supported but dont know the differences
> between SE and SE/30.
> 
> thx
> 
> berni

The original SE is significantly less powerful than an SE/30.
The SE has the original Motorola 68000 processor,
and no room for coprocessor or memory management unit
(as I understand). So you'd be hard pressed to even 
try to upgrade it.

The SE/30 has the 68030 processor, and it has a math
coprocessor (number eludes me? 68882? something like
that), both of which are absolutely required for
NetBSD/mac68k 1.2 .

In short: there's just no way you're going to get 
NetBSD on and SE. And even if you did, I think you'd
be limited to 4 MB of real RAM, which would make
things awfully tight.

Sorry!

-usman