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I run NetBSD on my Quadra 950, found a 100base-T ethernet card for it on eBay. It could have 256MB of RAM but I haven't gone that far yet. Original Macintosh s

• yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
  > I run NetBSD on my Quadra 950, > on System 7 Dual boot, or VM?
  • rjsw 6y ago
    The machine boots System 7, I have some native Macintosh applications installed. NetBSD/mac68k provides a Mac application that takes over the whole machine, loads the NetBSD kernel into memory and starts running it, the only way to exit from this is to reboot.
    • yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
      Oh, that's really cool. A sensible abuse of the lack of memory protections, I assume - reminds me of GRUB4DOS, which did much the same. EDIT: Yep, > The Booter also will certainly fail if Virtual Memory is enabled, so turn that off too while you're snooping around in the Memory control panel. - http://www.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/booter-manual/index.html http://www.netbsd.org/ports/mac68k/booter-manual/index.html