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From: dsmou1@silas.cc.monash.edu.au (Mr DS Moulder)
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Subject: Re: MacBSD question...
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Date: 19 Jul 1995 07:33:48 GMT
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Allen Briggs (briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us) wrote:
: In article <darmou-1907950150590001@mts01-modem07.cc.monash.edu.au>,
: Daryl Moulder <darmou@netspace.net.au> wrote:
: >Has x windows been releaced for macbsd and where can I find it?

: X11R6 will run on some systems in 1-bit (mono) mode.  If dt will work,
: so will X.  A clue is if the grf0 line during boot reports the correct
: dimensions for your display.

: >Will freebsd work under a Daystar acceleratior, I will be getting a 500Mhz
: >030 with onbourd 68881 for my ageing LC 1.
Woops I meant 50Mhz

: FreeBSD, as far as I know will not work on Macs at all.  NetBSD seems
: to work on some accelerators and not others.  I don't know if the accel.
: will allow you to run NetBSD on the LC, though, as I don't know how all
: the LC differs from the systems that do work.  Even so, you will have to
: disable the Daystar's cache to run BSD--at least for now.

How do you disable the cache?

Thanks for any info,

Daryl Moulder