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hardware revision 1.3 
      1     NetBSD/mac68k 1.2 runs on several of the older Macintosh computers.
      2     4MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and the system can probably
      3     be squeezed onto a 40MB hard disk by leaving off a package or two.
      4     To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than
      5     booting, at least 8MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended.
      6     About 60MB will be necessary to install all of the NetBSD 1.2 binary
      7     distribution (note that this does not count swap space!).  Much more
      8     disk space is required to install the source and objects as well (about
      9     another 200-300MB as a guess).
     10     
     11     Supported models:
     12     	Mac II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, SE/30, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi,
     13     	Performa 550, Performa 600,
     14     	LC III, LC 520,
     15     	MacTV
     16     
     17     Supported devices on all of the above systems include:
     18     	Internal SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs
     19     	Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway
     20     	Most basic NuBUS video cards (there have been some
     21     		problems with some 24-bit color cards)
     22     	Both internal serial ports
     23     	ADB keyboards and mice
     24     	Ethernet cards based on the Natl. Semiconductor 8390
     25     		(Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still
     26     		 with ethernet and many NuBus video cards).
     27     	
     28     If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem
     29     with accessing the ADB and it may still work with a serial console.
     30     Some of the known ones in this category:
     31     	Classic II (Performa 200?)
     32     	PowerBook 145, PowerBook 160
     33     
     34     What isn't supported, but often asked about:
     35     	68040-based Macs.  Work is in progress on these, but it is slow-
     36     		going.  This requires a new scsi driver and a new
     37     		ethernet driver.  When something is available, it will
     38     		be announced on port-mac68k (a] netbsd.org.
     39     	PowerPC-based Macs.  This will be separate from this port.
     40      		The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much of
     41     		the hardware inside these machines.  If you are
     42     		interested in this, you might want to take a look at 
     43     		http://www.mklinux.apple.com/.
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