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hardware revision 1.5 
      1 NetBSD/mac68k _VER 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 75MB will be necessary to install all of the NetBSD _VER 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, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi,
     13 	Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467,
     14 	Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600,
     15 	LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550,
     16 	MacTV,
     17 	Centris 650,
     18 	Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800,
     19 	Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV
     20 
     21 Supported devices on all of the above systems include:
     22 	Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs
     23 	Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway
     24 	Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some
     25 		problems with some 24-bit color cards and with most
     26                 QuickDraw acclerators)
     27 	Both internal serial ports
     28 	ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party
     29 		multi-button mice and trackballs are supported)
     30 	Ethernet cards based on the Natl. Semiconductor 8390 and the
     31 		SONIC (DP83932) chips
     32 		(Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still
     33 		 with ethernet and many NuBus video cards).
     34 	Onboard ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs
     35 	Onboard ethernet based on the MACE chip for the AV Quadras.
     36 	Comm-slot ethernet may be working for some machines/cards.
     37 	
     38 If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem
     39 with accessing onboard video and it may still work with a serial console.
     40 Some of the known ones in this category:
     41 	Classic-series Macs 
     42 	PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs
     43 
     44 If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with
     45 floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor.  Machines in
     46 this category include:
     47 	Newer LC-series machines
     48 	Newer Performa-series machines
     49 	Some PowerBook 500-series Macs
     50 
     51 What isn't supported, but often asked about:
     52 	Macintosh IIfx:  This machine has unusual custom chips for the
     53 		ADB and serial interfaces which makes support for it
     54 		difficult.  Work is in progress on this, though.
     55 	Quadra 900/950:  These machines have I/O processor chips for their
     56 		ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus
     57 		face similar support problems.
     58 	PowerPC-based Macs.  This will be separate from this port.
     59  		The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much of
     60 		the hardware inside these machines.  If you are
     61 		interested in this, you might want to take a look at 
     62 		http://www.mklinux.apple.com/.  In addition, there is
     63 		also a NetBSD-powerpc port.  For more information, please
     64 		see http://www.tools.de/~ws/NetBSD/powerpc.html.
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