>On Thu, 21 May 1998, E. Seth Miller wrote:
>
>> As the owner of a Performa 640 (the 630 with a DOS card bastardized into
>> it), I have to admit that would be neat.  I can't imagine it being all
>> that likely to happen, though...  IIRC, the DOS card is looking for
MS-DOS
>> 6.22, and while it's somewhat willing to put up with Win95, it doesn't
>> want to consider NT, OS/2 or Linux (so I'm sick, and I like beating on my
>> computers).  I wouldn't be surprised if what would need to be written was
>> a special form of NetBSD-i386.  I can't imagine that there would be all
>> that much interest, so I doubt that it will ever happen...  Of course,
I'd
>> be willing to settle for a way under NetBSD to still access the DOS card.

>> It'd be rather neat to be able to switch back and forth between Unix and
>> its retarded cousin, DOS.  (As if I don't type ls often enough at DOS
>> prompts.)
>
>        Presumably there is a Macos driver that sets up the environment
>        such that the DOS or Win95 can run OK. If you can get something
>        in NetBSD to do the same then it should be possible to run DOS
>        or Win95 on the card.

I don't own one of these (my latest Mac is a IIfx), but i seem to recall
that
the problem is the lack of 32-bit drivers for the board.

I vaugely recall that someone was trying to get Linux running on one, but
it involved writing a disk driver that would use the PC BIOS (ick!).

As an aside, has anyone tried running NetBSD/i386 on any of Orange Micro's
cards? For that matter, does anyone know of a source for used 386 or 486
based ones? I have a Mac286 board, but would like to find something a
"little newer"?

<<<John>>>