On Oct 25, 16:22, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: } On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 03:45:56PM -0400, Mouse wrote: } > } > I once had an hp300 with all of 5M of RAM. Years ago, when I had it } > running, thorpej told me it was quite possibly an instance of the } > slowest machine then supported by NetBSD. (Amusingly, at the same time } > I had an alpha that he said was possibly an instance of the fastest.) } } I think -- with the possible exception of the 725 or 730 if anyone ever } made them work, they were very hard to get going even with 4.3! -- the } Sun 2/50 is likely the slowest machine that ever ran NetBSD. I don't think } we support any 68010-based HP300 models, though I am not entirely sure. } } Was the Australian machine kre mentioned one of those bizarre dual-68000 } designs that ran two CPUs in lockstep to handle non-restartable } instructions? I've heard about them but never seen one.
If I recall correctly (30 year old memories here), Apollo did that, but I haven't seen/touched one of those in about 30 years. It also had an interesting file system / networking trick where you could do //<host>/... to get at files on a different machine. }-- End of excerpt from Thor Lancelot Simon