Subject: Re: NetBSD over Motorola 68008 (Sinclair QL) ?
To: None <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 05/04/2000 13:31:34
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Black Berry wrote:
> > I've got a Sinclair QL at home.
> > Im asking if there's a port for this architecture.
> > Data Bus 8 bit
> > 
> > Model:     Sinclair QL ('Quantum Leap')
> > Released:  1984, January
> > CPU: MC-68008, 7.5 MHz
> > ROM: 48 kbytes
> > RAM: 128 kbytes (exp
> > 640)                                                       
> > 
> > Please answer me in Private , Tnx
> 
> There is no port, and given that the machine probably has no MMU, it's not
> likely that you can port NetBSD (or any other kind of Unix using virtual
> memory) to it.

	As Hubert mentions - the machine is just a little too limited
	for NetBSD or any other serious unix like operating system.

	The 'Q40' QL successor would certainly be capable of running
	NetBSD... if anyone is interested in doing the work :)

		http://www.q40.de/machine.html


		David/absolute
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