Early history of NetBSD/amiga: i got to NetBSD via my amiga, though... which is - like 6 years ago. back then, several unix utilities were available under amigaos, and their number was growing: starting with csh, then gcc & emacs... one day i discovered that some madmen invested time into porting the Mach microkernel to the Amiga, but that project didn't get beyone a kernel thread printing "hello world" :-) shortly after that, Markus Wild made his first versions of NetBSD/amiga public, which wasn't integrated into the main NetBSD CVS tree, as it's today some early traces of this can be found at http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/NetBSD/jm-postcard.html, btw it's a card from jm, whom i helped installing NetBSD then :) well, after some starting problems and helping to get around them (I'm still proud to say that my A2k was the first A2k running NetBSD/amiga in singleuser :-), and being probably the first person who run an X client of an A2k w/ NetBSD (xclock over a SLIP line, connected to a SparcStation 10 :), and compiled by hand, without a "make" in X... well, at around that time, I started out the netbsd-amiga ftp archive at ftp.uni-regensburg.de:/pub/NetBSD-Amiga ... i and many others uploaded compiled binaries of about anything, and i started a concept of how to make such packages available (then known as EasyInstall)... this was in use for quite a time (and it is still at some places :-), but was superceded by what was taken from FreeBSD like 2(?) years ago URLs: * ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/os/NetBSD-Amiga/docs/netbsd-meeting-meka3.jpg * ftp://ftp.uni-regensburg.de/pub/os/NetBSD-Amiga/docs/Mailinglist-Archive/ * http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/NetBSD/meka3.html * http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/jm-postcard.html Stand: Aug 31 1999