From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 11 18:15:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id SAA24612 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:15:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA24607 for ; Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:15:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id MAA09870; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:43:39 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701120213.MAA09870@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: FreeBSD -> NCR Tower In-Reply-To: <199701111947.MAA24041@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jan 11, 97 12:47:49 pm" To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:43:38 +1030 (CST) Cc: chat@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > FreeBSD for the NCR Tower! Yes! Yes! > > I was thinking about this a while ago. > > A Tower32 wouldn't be that hard (given the NetBSD HP300 port), but > a Tower16 would be a bugger... unfortunately, the only NCR hardware > I know is lying around somewhere is a Tower16. > > Maybe we should abstract the VM dependencies and services provided > from a dependency on a full PMMU? Then you could port to the Tower16, > the Tandy 6000, and the 80286, if you wanted. Back when I was young and stupid (so not so long ago I guess), a national chain of department stores were throwing out their collection of Tower machines. I spent some time chasing NCR for hardware details, with no luck. Probably a good thing, really 8) > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[