Subject: Re: netbsd on cisc processor
To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-ports
Date: 03/07/2000 08:12:53
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000 22:52:35 -0800 (PST)
Todd Whitesel <toddpw@best.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Our university is fifted in a cisc processor built in Bull DPX/2. I'd like to
> > know if it is possible to install netbsd software on it.
Well, some Bull systems had m68k processors in them ... those certainly
qualify as CISC :-)
Do you know what *kind* of processor is in that system?
>
> Seriously, though, I don't recognize that processor at all.
> Unless it is a copy of some other machine that we do support,
> I don't think we run on it.
>
> If it already runs some sort of unix-like operating system, then you
> can probably get a lot of the netbsd user programs to compile and run
> on it.
>
> Todd Whitesel
> toddpw @ best.com
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>