Hullooo,

On Tue 20 May, Peter Berg wrote:

> Will the NC be able to run a complete RiscBSD including X-windows so that it 
> can be used the same way under BSD as currently the RiscPC's ? I'm not 
> intrested in any kind of NC OS, I like to know whether it would be possible to 
> run it with RiscBSD or with a customized NetBSD/arm32 so that I either can use 
> it as a fast SA-110 diskless workstation, netbooted X-terminal or even with a 
> customized NetBSD version for a completly diffrent kind of usage then a NC 
> (spectrum analyzer or a kind of 'set-top-box'-style application with 
> selfwritten software).
> 
> Is there something like the RiscPC console device on it or is it even 
> compatible to the existing console driver on the RPC ?
> 
> If this is not the case and it will only be a NC, then I forget about it :(

NetBSD for the Shark will be available as standard, including X Windows.
It will have (indeed, has) a console on it. I also believe that Rob plans
to port his console to it at some stage too. You can thus use it for whatever
you want!

	Neil

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