Whoah!

The Sinclair QL actually was produced!  Obviously it was  not sold here   
in the US, or I'd have on :-)

I have an OLD Radio Electronics with a review of the 68K based Sinclair   
in '95 or '96, look kind of neat for that time in computing.

Where did the QL40 come in?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Brownlee [mailto:abs@netbsd.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 1:32 PM
> To: hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de; John A. Maier
> Cc: Black Berry; netbsd-ports@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD over Motorola 68008 (Sinclair QL) ?
>
>
>
> 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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