I just sent this to your generic porting email address then saw this
address...

(I'd be very keen to hear from anyone else who has one of these machines
anyway as Tek gave up support on them years ago - it's just a well-made
paperweight at present!)

cheers

Jules

> ----------
> From: 	Julian Richardson
> Sent: 	14 February 2001 16:10
> To: 	'netbsd-ports@netbsd.org'
> Subject: 	NetBSD suggested port
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Possibly one for the suggested ports section of your website...
> 
> I've got an old Tektronix XD88 workstation gathering dust which would
> probably make a fine NetBSD system. Disks are SCSI, graphics (on mine, an
> XD88/10) were 8-bit with I believe 4MB video memory, the machine has
> 10Mbps ethernet. All the usual stuff (and a hardcopy interface, but
> getting any documentation for that might be interesting)
> 
> I'm only mentioning this as there seem to be a few Motorola 88k-based
> machines (as the XD88 was) under the suggested ports section of your
> website - once one of those was up and running it might not to too hard to
> port NetBSD to this thing; I believe gcc will run on it anyway under Tek's
> own UTek OS. 
> 
> My machine's dead at the moment (disk failure, and no OS tapes for it) but
> I hope to be able to get it running soon. I'm a Java guy, not C/C++, but
> should be able to offer help if someone else has one of these machines and
> is capable of attempting to do a port (sadly it seems like Tek didn't make
> many; when mine was working it was pretty fact for such an old system)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jules
> 
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