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hardware revision 1.7 
      1 NetBSD/mac68k _VER runs on several of the older Macintosh computers.
      2 About 4MB of RAM should be sufficient to boot and the system can probably
      3 be squeezed onto a 40MB hard disk by leaving off an unnecessary set or two.
      4 To actually do much compiling or anything more interesting than booting, at
      5 least 8MB of RAM and more disk space is recommended.  About 75MB will be
      6 necessary to install all of the NetBSD _VER binary system distribution
      7 sets (note that this does not count swap space!).  An addition 25MB or so
      8 is needed for the binary X11 distribution sets.  Much more disk space is
      9 required to install the source and objects as well (at least another 300MB).
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     12 Supported models:
     13 
     14 	Mac II, IIx, IIcx, SE/30, IIci, IIsi, IIvx, IIvi,
     15 	Performa 400/405/410/430, Performa 450, Performa 460/466/467,
     16 	Performa 520, Performa 550/560, Performa 600,
     17 	LC II, LC III, LC III+, LC 520, LC 550,
     18 	MacTV,
     19 	Centris 650,
     20 	Quadra 610, Quadra 630, Quadra 650, Quadra 700, Quadra 800,
     21 	Quadra/Centris 660AV, Quadra 840AV
     22 
     23 
     24 Supported devices on all of the above systems include:
     25 
     26 	Onboard SCSI bus and most SCSI tapes, hard drives, and CD-ROMs
     27 	Internal sound--enough to beep on some machines, anyway
     28 	Most basic NuBus video cards (there have been some
     29 		problems with some 24-bit color cards and with most
     30                 QuickDraw acclerators)
     31 	Both internal serial ports
     32 	ADB keyboards and mice (both Apple and a number of third party
     33 		multi-button mice and trackballs are supported)
     34 	Ethernet cards based on the Natl. Semiconductor 8390 and the
     35 		SONIC (DP83932) chips
     36 		(Asante, Apple, and a few others--problems still
     37 		 with ethernet and many NuBus video cards).
     38 	Onboard ethernet based on the SONIC chip for Quadra-series Macs
     39 	Onboard ethernet based on the MACE chip for the AV Quadras.
     40 	Comm-slot ethernet may be working for some machines/cards.
     41 	
     42 
     43 If your 68030 system is not listed above, it may be because of a problem
     44 with accessing onboard video, and it may still work with a serial console.
     45 Some of the known ones in this category:
     46 
     47 	Classic-series Macs 
     48 	PowerBook 100-series and Duo-series Macs
     49 
     50 
     51 If your 68LC040 system is not listed above, it is due to a problem with
     52 floating point emulation (FPE) for this type of processor.  Machines in
     53 this category include:
     54 
     55 	Newer LC-series machines
     56 	Newer Performa-series machines
     57 	Some PowerBook 500-series Macs
     58 
     59 
     60 What isn't supported, but often asked about:
     61 
     62 	Macintosh IIfx:  This machine has unusual custom chips for the
     63 		ADB and serial interfaces which makes support for it
     64 		difficult.  Work is in progress on this, though.
     65 	Quadra 900/950:  These machines have I/O processor chips for their
     66 		ADB interfaces similar to those used in the IIfx and thus
     67 		face similar support problems.
     68 	PowerPC-based Macs.  This will be separate from this port.
     69  		The PowerPC is a much different processor as is much of
     70 		the hardware inside these machines.  If you are
     71 		interested in this, you might want to take a look at 
     72 		http://www.mklinux.apple.com/.  In addition, there is
     73 		also a NetBSD-powerpc port.  For more information, please
     74 		see http://www.tools.de/~ws/NetBSD/powerpc.html.
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