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From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)
Subject: Re: [ANSWER] What is *BSD?
Message-ID: <CG94vH.GCu@endicor.com>
Organization: Endicor Technologies, Inc., San Antonio, Texas
References: <jmonroyCG7wED.77x@netcom.com> <34941@ksr.com> <DERAADT.93Nov9123125@sun-lamp.agate>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 01:16:28 GMT
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In article <DERAADT.93Nov9123125@sun-lamp.agate> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
> In article <34941@ksr.com> jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:
> > [...] and NetBSD currently runs on HP300s,
> > Amigas, SPARCs, some Macintoshes*, (a couple of other architectures
> > I forget offhand), and of course the 386.
> 
> Here's a more complete list:
[...]
> amiga:	for amiga3000's, with amiga4000's being worked on. This port
> 	is very stable too. the sunos-compat code is in this kernel,
> 	so it can run sunos sun3 executables.
> 	CONTACT: mw@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu

Correction:

It also runs on 2500's, and 500's & 2000's (with an MMU-equipped
accelerator).  [and probably accelerated MMU-equipped A1000's, though
they're very few and I don't believe it's been tried]. SCSI currently
works on the A3000 built-in, A2091, and GVP Series II controllers.

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