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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.94.215.18!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!panix!news.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news.cs.columbia.edu!news-not-for-mail From: ji@news.cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: NetBSD on a BBN Butterfly? Date: 11 Feb 1997 12:51:58 -0500 Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5dqbju$fbe@cs.columbia.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.970207093947.3657B-100000@stat.WPI.EDU> <pk920an1nw1.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> <5dq18r$4nb$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.columbia.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5357 In article <5dq18r$4nb$1@vishnu.jussieu.fr>, Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr> wrote: >Christopher Gray (grayc@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be) wrote: >> I could be wrong -- it's happened before ;> -- but I'm pretty certain that >> NetBSD requires a 68030. > >You are (at least partially) wrong: NetBSD runs on sun3/50 and /60, which >are 68020-based machines. > The 68020-based suns had their own, Sun-designed MMU, which is different from the 68851, the Motorola MMU. The sun3x architecture (the 3/80 and its server counterpart) used the 68030. /ji