Re: Page on www.amiga.de for NetBSD

[Markus Illenseer <markus%core.de@localhost>]

>       Does anyone have any thoughts/ideas on how to phrase an
>       appropriate page on www.amiga.de referencing NetBSD?

 My quick proposal, please correct wrong terms and numbers.

 NetBSD, the free [insert standard here], is, among 14 other platforms,
also available for the Amiga platform. Beeing the the third platform
NetBSD was ported onto, Amiga has a long tradition since 1993, and 
is smoothly embedded into the daily progress of NetBSD and thus profits
of all recent changes to hardware structures as well as to user land
software. Currently a wast amount of Amiga-releated hardware is supported,
such as graphic boards, SCSI host adaptors, different CPU types (from
m68020 with additional MMU to m68030 and up to m68060) and networking
devices. The Amiga "clone" 'DraCo' is supported as well. Development
is in work for the PowerPC board made by Phase5 - which will profit in 
using the existing ports for other PowerPC-based NetBSD-platforms.

 NetBSD/Amiga is binary compatible to all other m68000-based NetBSD
platform such as NetBSD/Mac, NetBSD/Atari, NetBSD/Sun3, NetBSD/HP300
and NetBSD/m68k (generic m68k) and NetBSD/mvme68k (Motorola VME). 
Beeing binary-compatible to Sun OS 3.x on old Sun3 machines, NetBSD/Amiga
even helped to continue the recent development of AmigaOS from porting
the Source using the old environment system on NetBSD/Amiga to native
AmigaOS using SAS/C.

 NetBSD has - unless other free UNICES - another idea to distribute the
System. All NetBSD releases are full distribution sets and do not only
inclue a kernel, but also the complete user land, including X Window
and a C compiler. Currently version 1.3.2 is up to date and available
by ftp and on CD-ROM. A complete distribution for all supported 
platforms contains not only the binaries, but a complete source for
all applications, which makes a full NetBSD distribution an important
resource for all developers. Other NetBSD platforms do profit from
the Amiga as well, ie. Amiga file system and support for Zorro bus,
which may be important in the near Amiga future.
 

 Please visit the NetBSD community under http://www.netbsd.org
(or use mirrors: http://www.de.netbsd.org). 

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Markus Illenseer