Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:43:02 +0900 (JST) From: Arizona Coyote <coyote@ratbert.aisol.net> To: Jon Biddell <jba@fl.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Question Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970921113918.25799A-100000@ratbert> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970920234300.006dd814@pop.syd.fl.net.au>
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Hi, NeXT hardware uses Motorola 680X0 chips whereas freeBD only runs on Intel X86 hardware. NetBSD has been ported to the Mac 68k and Amiga 68k platforms. I do not know if NeXT hardware is similar enough to one of those two to run NetBSD or not. You might wnat to sniff around http://www.netbsd.org/ anyways. Shouldn't the hardware come with NeXTStep already installed? Mark On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Jon Biddell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a NeXT Turbo Monochrome System, and will soon be getting a NeXT CUBE > !! (440Mb Hard SCSI drive, 1.44Mb Floppy, 16Mb RAM, 68040 processor)... Is > FreeBSD suitable for this hardware (I don't want to upgrade to OpenStep at > a cost of $2000 !! > > Jon > Mark Andres E-mail: coyote@ratbert.aisol.net / 100% Microsoft Free thanks to NetBSD and FreeBSD! \ Mac Centris 650: NetBSD 1.2-current IBM ThinkPad 220: FreeBSD 3.0-current Macintosh IIcx: NetBSD 1.2.1 | http://bullwinkle.aisol.net/
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