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From: husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Subject: Re: 680x0 version of 386BSD?? [Was: Re: Mac version of 386BSD??]
References: <1992Aug20.173817.21681@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 06:48:25 GMT
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tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky) writes:

>In fact if I had an hp300, I could just about open the can, heat and eat.
>I get the impression the guys at Berkeley actually had hp300's on their
>desks, but I could just be starting a rumor.

As far as I know they do. (I do, too 8=). I'm running pre-alpha 4.4 BSD on it
--- I think the CSRG also put in the support for 68040s.

>But this doesn't mean it will be easy.  If it was easy, I would drop it
>and go find something hard to do.  :-)

Once the unencumbered version is out I think it should be easier to port to
other 68k machines than it was for Bill & Lynne to port to the 386/486 
architecture.

	Dirk

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