Subject: Re: Cross-Platform Compatability
To: None <fr30@dial.pipex.com>
From: Tim Preston <tim@graywolfe.redcat.org.uk>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/03/1996 12:09:02
>
> Hi Geof,
>
> > I have been messing around with NetBSD on my Amiga 4000, at home for a few
> > months, now my boss wants me to set up a web server using spare parts. It
> > seems the best option is a Mac IIx (030) 8meg we have here running NetBSD.
> > The biggest problem is an available compiled httpd server. Ive found CERN
> > httpd for the amiga port but that is about it. I seem to rember reading
> > something about all 68k based versions are binary compatible (with the
> > exception of direct hardware calls) is this true? If so are any other httpd
> > servers available anywhere, like Apache or NCSA??
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Geof
>
> I am running NCSA httpd under NetBSD 1.1 on my Amiga 3000 (to let me carry out
> some experiments for a project at work), the standard distribution sources
> compiled with no problems. I am using a PC running Netscape 2.0, connected
> over a serial PPP link to the Amiga, to test some CGI programs and it all
> works very well.
>
> I have no experience of the MAC port of NetBSD but I would expect NCSA httpd
> to compile and run just as well on the MAC as on the Amiga.
>
>
Apache compiles 'out of the box' on NetBSD Amiga 1.1. I have no reason to
think that compiling it on a Mac will be any more difficult.
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