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- From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
- Subject: Re: m68k Unix
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 05:37:15 GMT
- Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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- In article <4cr0p8$ar1@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>,
- Axel Kielhorn <i0080108@ws.rz.tu-bs.de> wrote:
-
- >Your Name (gregk@cp.duluth.mn.us) wrote:
- >: Or does anyone know about a freeware unix for the same processor.
- >
- >Well, not Unix, but Linux.
-
- ...and NetBSD. Check out http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ for more details.
-
- >There are versions of Linux-m68k available for Amiga and Atari
- >computers (68020 + PMMU or 68030, 6888[12] required!).
-
- NetBSD currently runs on the following m68k-based platforms:
-
- amiga
- atari
- hp300
- mac68k
- mvme147
- sun3
-
- I personally run it on the hp300, mvme147, and sun3. It's extremely stable
- and performs quite well. Note that the 68020 + some sort of MMU (sun3
- doens't use a Motorola PMMU, but the strange-ish sun MMU) is required.
- An FPU is encouraged to run NetBSD, but not strictly required. NetBSD
- has a pretty good (though not 100% complete) 68881 emulator in the tree.
-
- We have COMPAT_LINUX for the i386 port of NetBSD ... maybe one of these
- days someone will get around to doing COMPAT_LINUX for the m68k ports ;-)
-
- Ciao.
-
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