Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018)

Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by dayofthedaleks on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @09:43PM (#21881740)

Current builds of NetBSD still run just fine on Quadras.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by retrac on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:00AM (#21882107)

Very true. In fact, aside from the big fridge-sized VAXes and some early Sun-3s, I'm pretty sure the Macintosh II of 1987 is the oldest commodity computer that can still run a mainstream and maintained UNIX-like OS. You can even stick 128 MB of RAM in one!

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by tyingq on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:16AM (#21883109)

I suppose it's not a commodity PC, but there were PC sized VAXstations.

Netbsd says it supports the VAXstation 2000, which debuted in 1987.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by pjmlp on Thursday December 26, 2019 @12:43AM (#21882214)

Amigas as well.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by mjg59 on Thursday December 26, 2019 @04:54AM (#21882866)

Commodore didn't ship an Amiga with an MMU until the 2500/20 in 1988.

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by pjmlp on Thursday December 26, 2019 @06:40AM (#21883193)

Fair enough, got the year wrong.

As info for others,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Unix

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Re:Installing A/UX on the Quadra 610 (2018) by bluedino on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:29AM (#21883622)

Installing NetBSD is good fun if you have an old Mac laying around: http://p3k.org/netbsd/

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