On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Bob Nestor wrote:

> >Does anyone have any experience trying to get BSD to run on a Mac Plus?
> >I have one at home and thought it might be neat to run a tiny UNIX
> >machine. (It is a standard plus w/ 1MB RAM and 40MB HD.)
> 
> The MacPlus doesn't have the necessary hardware to run NetBSD, but it 
> *does* run Minix, although I'm not so sure it will run in 1Meg - it will 
> run in 4Meg for sure.  Minix is a UNIX look-alike application that runs 
> under MacOS and gives the user the look and feel of UNIX. Many UNIX 
> applications run under Minix including program development tools. 
> Unfortuately it doesn't support any networking, probably because it must 
> rely on the host MacOS.

You might also look into MacMiNT.  I'm not sure if it works on a plus or
not, though.  It's also a little harder to set up than Minix, at least
from the standard net distribution, but it has the advantage of using the
Mac filesystem instead of restricting you to a fixed-size (huge) hard
drive file, and also, some people are working on (and have evidently made
great progress towards) TCP/IP for it by interfacting with MacTCP.

Hope that helps,

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