(fancy cut'n'pasting from the web-archives...)

Chris, I'd really appreciate if you could test the 7980 with
NetBSD. I can't get 7979A or 7974A to stream at all with
NetBSD and it's sort of painfull. Both work just fine with
HP-UX.

See:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/1999/05/31/0000.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/1999/06/15/0000.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2001/07/16/0001.html

Regarding an OS for 68000: you could try HP Basic :)

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jht