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From: peter@dis.demon.co.uk (peter)
Subject: Re: BSD for the 680x0 based systems, (ie. Mac's)
In-Reply-To: <32urim$gt7@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Organization: Demon Systems Ltd, London
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 12:04:30 +0000
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Due to Mike Olson's mail address not being in the original article,
I am posting to the group:

In article <32urim$gt7@xanth.cs.odu.edu> you write:
>I have a friend who is very interested in getting a BSD Unix for a 68040 based
>Mac. Preferably Free. He has a 4.3 BSD Commercial Unix that came with his 
>system, but he has to pay additional fee's to get a Compiler (What kind of a 
>raw deal is that?) If anyone has any info about a Free or Cheap Mac BSD please
>let me know. (Post or Mail)

NetBSD/mac68k (or MacBSD) is getting there. I have not personally used
it, but we user NetBSD/sparc and NetBSD/i386 here for real, critical
systems and it works.

Try joining the mailing list(s), send a mail to
majordomo@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu and say "lists" in the body. Also,
wander around the ftp site (same system), but the Mac binaries are kept
somewhere else at the moment (cray-ymp.... something - it'll be in the
mailing list archives).

Regards,
-- 
Peter Galbavy                                 work: peter@demon.co.uk
Demon Systems Ltd                             rest: peter@wonderland.org
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