Re: Have 2000! Will UNIX?

[Todd Vierling <tv%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Brent Hipp wrote:

: I have an Amiga 2000 with a 40 MByte SyQuest removeable drive, a GVP SCSI
: card w/ 6 M memory installed (total 7 M).  Otherwise, the system is plain.
: Can NetBSD be used on this system?  Where can I find out more information?

No.  You need an accelerator card, 68020-with-68851, 68030, 68040, or 68060
(and it *must* have an MMU, meaning plain 68020 without 68851 and 68EC030
won't work).

: I've installed FreeBSD on a PC and am familiar with variuos flavors of
: UNIX.  I would like to have some compatibility with FreeBSD if possible.

You'll have most source code compatibility with FreeBSD, but no binary
compatibility.  680x0 != 80x86, so the binaries won't run.

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