On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, ville hautakangas wrote:

> Speaking of insane thoughts, I got this idea about writing an OS for a
> DECserver 200. One of those 8-port terminal servers with a 68000. A
> fine 'OS' would probably be just a chat program for all eight
> terminals or a really simple, character-based multiplayer shoot'em up
> game (ever played nsnipes on a Novell network?). The DECserver system
> can be booted via MOP, and as far as I understand, the bootimage can
> include just about anything that fits in the DECserver's memory. I
> guess NetBSD-m68k or Linux-m68k would be far too big. I wonder where
> one can find specs & programming info for these obscure devices..

If the DECserver runs a 68000 with no MMU then Linux/m68k won't run on it.
There is however the 'Microcontroller' Linux port which supports MMU-less
m68k CPUs.  See http://www.uclinux.org.

Cheers,

- Greg