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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX for the Mac
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Date: 3 Mar 1995 18:05:25 GMT
Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia
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In article <3j5ccn$19un@tequesta.gate.net> danb@gate.net (Dan Benjamin) writes:
>I'm looking for a UNIX system for the Mac, but can't afford Mach Ten and 
>want a text-based system anyway.  Can anyone help?  I'll be running it on 
>an old Mac SE.

Your options for an SE are MachTen or maybe MacMiNT.  The SE only has a
68000 in it, so it can't to virtual memory.  If you get an SE -> SE/30 
upgrade from somewhere, you should be able to run NetBSD, as someone
else suggested (note follow-up).

-allen

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Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **