LFessen106_at_aol.com wrote:
> I have to say that this is one of the most interesting topics that we have discussed lately and it ereminds me why I actually joined the list in the first place!
>
> Another thing I would find interesting is/are lists of what people are looking for..
Well, I would like to get ahold of any kind of Motorola 68K machine that can run Linux/68K. No good reason, but the people on this list should be able to sympathize, if not understand. I guess my Performa 636 could if I can bring myself to pay the money I will have to pay to replace the brain-damaged LC040 with one posessing an FPU, though I hear rumor that the floating point
emulation is a little better these days. The Mac hardware isn't well supported though. I would really rather run it on a beefed-up Amiga or Atari ST. Unfortunately, the ones that have any chance of doing so are still too precious for me to get my grubby hands on.
I don't have any Atari computers, so I'd love to get a couple of them.
Somebody once released a free design for an '020 upgrade for the A1000, called LUCAS (Little Ugly Cheap Accelerator System) back when an '020-16 was hot stuff. I've been thinking about adapting that design to an '030(has integral MMU)/'881 combo, which could be capable of running Linux. Would also need to adapt a DRAM controller circuit, like the one from Ingo Cyliax's '030
workstation design in order to have enough RAM to do anything useful. Amigas and Ataris are a lot easier to hack (hardware-wise) than Macs.
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Joel Ewy
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 17:09:33 BST