Subject: Re: First BSD system
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/04/1999 01:47:20
>Bill,
>
>correct. The LC was really a poor machine, but with 32bit clean mem
>addressing scheme.

Heh, yeah, that 32-bit clean memory addressing scheme bought you an entire
extra 2 MBs of accessability! You could put 12 Megs into an LC, but it
could only map 10 MBs.

>I've a question regard the IIsi: Would it be possible to install NetBSD
>even on those machines, which does not have an FPU (mine has an FPU
>integrated in the Nubus adapter, but that was an add on - not by
>default).

Yes. You can use FPUless machines as long as they're not '040s. The '040
FPU emul. sucked eggs, not even mentioning the fact that so many were
broken from the factory.

Mike
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