Subject: Re: Amiga 500
To: Josh Davidson <dogtoy@ductape.net>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/12/2000 23:31:39
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:25:09PM -0500, Josh Davidson wrote:
> I know absolutely nothing about amigas, but I have access to an Amiga 500. I
> was wondering if this would run NetBSD.
Not really. A500 do not have any 020-or-up CPU with MMU.
However, there are accellerator boards (A530) with a 68030 in them, and I think
they can boot NetBSD. However, the scsi chip on them was old enough to confuse
our driver last time I watched somebody trying this.
Regards,
-is