From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 20 19:44:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08815 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ratbert.aisol.net (ratbert.aisol.net [202.233.42.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08810 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 19:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ratbert.aisol.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27481; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:43:02 +0900 (JST) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 11:43:02 +0900 (JST) From: Arizona Coyote X-Sender: coyote@ratbert To: Jon Biddell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970920234300.006dd814@pop.syd.fl.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, NeXT hardware uses Motorola 680X0 chips whereas freeBD only runs on Intel X86 hardware. NetBSD has been ported to the Mac 68k and Amiga 68k platforms. I do not know if NeXT hardware is similar enough to one of those two to run NetBSD or not. You might wnat to sniff around http://www.netbsd.org/ anyways. Shouldn't the hardware come with NeXTStep already installed? Mark On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Jon Biddell wrote: > Hi, > > I have a NeXT Turbo Monochrome System, and will soon be getting a NeXT CUBE > !! (440Mb Hard SCSI drive, 1.44Mb Floppy, 16Mb RAM, 68040 processor)... Is > FreeBSD suitable for this hardware (I don't want to upgrade to OpenStep at > a cost of $2000 !! > > Jon > Mark Andres E-mail: coyote@ratbert.aisol.net / 100% Microsoft Free thanks to NetBSD and FreeBSD! \ Mac Centris 650: NetBSD 1.2-current IBM ThinkPad 220: FreeBSD 3.0-current Macintosh IIcx: NetBSD 1.2.1 | http://bullwinkle.aisol.net/