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Amiga Unix, Again

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breput · 1789958158 · focus · HN ↗
I ran NetBSD 0.8 on my Amiga 500 (with a 68030 w/MMU, 68881, and SCSI hard drive sidecar), which co-existed in the same timeframe as Commodore's release.
Other than just than "we can" and historic interest, I can't imagine why anyone would choose to run System Vr4 over 4.4BSD, especially since the latest NetBSD 11 release still fully supports Amiga[0]
[0] <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/amiga/
1. jimjimjim · 1789966057 · focus · HN ↗
  Your 500 had a 030?
  1. code_duck · 1789967185 · focus · HN ↗
    You could buy accelerator boards for the 500 and 2000.
    jimjimjim · 1789971998 · focus · HN ↗
    Ah, good point. I had a 500 and a 1200 but I can't really remember the wider scene.

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