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From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
Message-ID: <9208192322.28@rmkhome.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:22:20 GMT
References: <1992Aug17.215858.14408@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug18.105723.13123@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <1992Aug18.174205.23671@news.iastate.edu> <1992Aug19.093937.14857@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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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...
>
>Right, that's what I thought too.  It's just that the project is too big for
>me to do alone.
>
>>What platform did you have in mind?
>
>Atari TT or Falcon (68030).  But what I consider most important is the fact
>that - when done right - the binaries of all 680x0 implementations will be 
>interchangeable, just like the Minix versions for Atari, Mac and Amiga.


There is a 680x0 binary standard for SVR4 systems, but I'm not sure who
is supporting it besides Commodore.

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