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From: bri@pegasus.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:53:59 GMT
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In article <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
>In article <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) writes:
>>Since most of the source is written in C, I believe that most of the time
>>is going to be spent writing drivers for disks, displays, etc...

i just had an interesting thought. wouldn't ib be a bit easier to port 
to the 68k apollos, since they use an ISA bus, which is supported by
386bsd? i realize that the video cards they use are not standard, but
you could at least get it up and going by using a pc card and monitor.

also i know others are trying to get info on making the apollo cards
and monitors usable in pc isa buses, so some others could get specs on
that.

btw, apollo does use a normal 3com ethernet card. is there support for
3com cards in 386bsd? if there was, that would be done too...

hmm...

-bri