Subject: Re: Apollo Domain Series 3000
To: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: David Jones <dej@inode.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 09/17/1998 07:10:38
David Brownlee wrote:
| 
| 	I've picked up one of these beasts (I bought a sun3/260 from
| 	someone and they found this in their garage at the same time :),
| 	and I was wondering if:
| 
| 		a) Is it liable to be able to run NetBSD at any point?

I have heard that people are working on a port.  Namely Herb Peyerl et al.

| 	   or	b) Are any of its parts of any use to anyone currently
| 		   running NetBSD on any other boxes?

Not really.  Everything is proprietary except for the CPU.

| 	  and	c) Are Apollo monitors likely to be usable with a sun?

No.  The scan rates are completely different and they aer fixed-frequency.
I've tried.