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From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on a BBN Butterfly?
Date: 12 Feb 1997 11:42:06 -0000
Organization: The Bath Room
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Brad Salai <bsalai@cyber3.servtech.com> writes:
> grayc@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be (Christopher Gray) writes:
> >I could be wrong -- it's happened before ;> -- but I'm pretty certain that
> >NetBSD requires a 68030.  The only free *n*x I know of for 680x0, x<3 is
> >MiNT (originally developed for Atari, also exists for Mac).

> I believe NetBSD will run on a 68020 with a PMMU. that's the configuration
> of a MacII which is known to work.

yeh, though I think you need an FPU also?

I ran v1.0 on my Amiga 2000 with 68020/MMU/FPU for a while, but it was a
bit slow..

iain