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From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a BBN Butterfly?
Date: 11 Feb 1997 21:12:22 GMT
Organization: George's NetBSD answer man
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In article <pk920an1nw1.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be>,
Christopher Gray <grayc@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> wrote:

>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).

You are mistaken... NetBSD runs on 68020 or higher, providing the
system has an MMU of some sort.  (NetBSD/sun3 would be tough if we
didn't run on the 68020... :-)

	-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org>