> A friend of mine is looking into buying an a200 with
                                             ^^^^
One of C='s older models?

> octagon hardware for running netbsd on (it also has
> a 86030/882 card in it). But unfortunately,
    ^^^^^
That's Motorola's top secret 030 variant that also hardware emulates
Intel 8086 instructions, right?

:-)

> interested in buying one. Is there any possibililty
> to run netbsd on that hardware and in a non-interlace
> mode? (e.g. not 80 by 50, but 80 by 25, emulating
> a true vt220?)

Yes.  I set this up once for a demo.  If I can find the patches, I'll
post them.

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