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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 12:57:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: E Lakin <pharaoh@u.washington.edu>
To: Bill Lewis <bill@coach.mlog.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the Motorola 68k
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FreeBSD only runs on the x86 architecture. However, NetBSD and OpenBSD
are multi-architecture OS's (including 68k macs) and very similar to FreeBSD.

I've run NetBSD on mac IIci's and sparcstations, and like it quite a
bit. However, it's not as full-featured (or documented) as FreeBSD.
Check out http://www.netbsd.org/

On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Bill Lewis wrote:
?      I recall reading somewhere that FreeBSD would run on the Motorola
? 68k chip.  In particular, I have an old Macintosh IIcx and was wondering
? if I could install FreeBSD on to it.  Any info on this would be greatly
? appreciated.
? 
? Bill Lewis (bill.lewis@mlog.com)

	--eric lakin