Subject: Re: M88k
To: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
List: port-m88k
Date: 07/03/2000 08:35:02
[ > is Steve ]
[ > > is Craig ]

> > I have an M88k box which is about to be retired (ie dumped).
> Which m88k would that be?
> 
> > Have you got anything to turn it into a BSD box?
> Nothing in NetBSD-land, although you could try OpenBSD if it's an mvme187.
> 
> If you *really* want to get NetBSD on it, and it's an mvme187, you could
> always try porting to it yourself! Alternatively, you could donate the box
> to a NetBSD developer in Australia who could do the port.
> 
> (Note: The mvme187 is identical to the already supported mvme167, appart
> from the small detail of the CPU ... ;-)

Also note that I now have a couple of 187s here along with a luna and a
couple of AViiONs.  They will run NetBSD at some point...  :-)

-allen