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From: grayc@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be (Christopher Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a BBN Butterfly?
Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:19:10 +0100
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In article <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970207093947.3657B-100000@stat.WPI.EDU> 
  robert mcdonald <frobnoid@wpi.edu> writes:


   Our local chapter of ACM (association of COmputer Machinery, a bunch of cs
   geeks mostly :)) has got ahold of a BBN Butterfly, which contains 32
   motorola 68k processors... (68020 I believe)
    Is running NetBSD on this thing a viable option? 
   I know it's been ported to the 68k architecture... but will it run on a 32
   processor machine?

I could be wrong -- it's happened before ;> -- but I'm pretty certain that
NetBSD requires a 68030.  The only free *n*x I know of for 680x0, x<3 is
MiNT (originally developed for Atari, also exists for Mac).

As for the multiprocessing bit, Perihelion have a product called PARDI 
which may be relevant: however I think they want money for it. :(  Take 
a look at <URL:http://www.perihelion.co.uk/>.


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