Subject: Re: Third party processor upgrades... can NetBSD work with them?
To: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/09/2002 07:12:13
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Chris Wareham wrote:

> A couple of days ago I posted a query about a Mac LC that I had just
> acquired. It turns out to be the very first (68020 processor) model.
> Despite disparaging remarks on some Mac enthusiast websites, it is very
> nippy with MacOS 7.5.5 on it. It came with an ethernet adapter which
> plugs into the SCSI port, and it is happily connected to my network.
>
> However, I'd still dearly like to get NetBSD running on it. A/UX, while
> interesting, is nigh on impossible to get hold of and totally
> unhackable. So I am wondering - can this model of LC run NetBSD as is?
> It doesn't have an FPU which is a downside, but it doesn't have the
> buggy 68CL040 either. Failing that, would something like the following
> 68040 processor and RAM upgrade be likely to work under NetBSD?
>
>    http://www.sonnettech.com/product/presto_plus.html

I don't think so, but perhaps someone else will comment on whether
any progress has been made on that front.

> Or as a last resort, does anyone know of a telnet package for MacOS 7?
> Whenever I mention such a thing to the handful of Mac users I know their
> eyes glaze over. Must be fear of the command line.

Here's one:

    http://asg.web.cmu.edu/andrew2/dist/niftytelnet.html

Frederick