Re: [Sheflug] Amiga Linux?

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

Yes, I did read on the Debian site about the requirement of an MMU. I
didn't think the A1200 would have one. Seemed to be something the newer
machines ended up with (in the Amiga range, at least)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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Life would be so much easier if we 
could just look at the source code.
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On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Will Newton wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> > Still, it was just a thought. This particular one is just a basic amiga,
> > with mouse and joystick and workbench disks. Nothing special.
> > 
> > If I could get hold of an a3/4000 though, it would be a nice experiment to
> > build a box from source, just for the hell of it...
> 
> I used to have a fair bit of Amiga stuff once upon a time, I might still
> have a 68030 board somewhere. Failing that you can probably pick one up in
> Micro Mart pretty cheap. Commodore in their wisdom put in 68EC020 chips
> which don't have MMUs. No MMU, no VM, no VM, no Linux.
> 68020 (Non EC revision), 68030 and above will all work.
> 
> 
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