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Probably easier to find an old Macintosh with a MMU if you want to try out NetBSD on something of that vintage.

There are definitely more Macs out there than Amigas.

On either 68k platform swapping out a full 68030/040 instead of the EC versions is quite easy, and these chips are still fairly available on the used market.

In the UK the Amiga was huge - a much larger market than the 68K Macs. Possibly Germany too.

The USA (as far as I understand it) had lots of 68K Macs in their schools, where as the UK had more Acorn Equipment (which gradually moved to x86 through Research Machines)

Yeah, it's very market specific. I grew up in Norway, and until the mid-90's I had seen a grand total of one Mac in person (the first Apple machine I'd seen at all) - the mostly ignored display unit at my local computer store. Nobody I knew had Macs - those upgrading from 8-bit home computers mostly went Amiga, Atari ST or PC's.

Ditto in Finland. Most young people with computers in the early 90's had Ataris and Amigas. I think I saw one single Mac at a friend's house once. Apart from that I didn't see any Macs until the Power Macs started getting popular.

> There are definitely more Macs out there than Amigas.

Maybe in the US, but definitely not in Europe - unless you also count modern Macs ;)

The Amiga ruled Britain until the 90s but radically different in the USA. My old boss was an American Amiga owner and he says he sold up around 1989 for the PC.

Runs great on my IIci. Been doing so since 2001. Also use it on a Quadra 605 with a full '040.

The other NetBSD machines around here are a Cobalt RaQ (MIPS), a Jornada 690 (SH3) and a Mac mini G4.

Now that there's an OpenBSD port to POWER9, though, NetBSD has no excuse.

I used to have an LC that I used to run Debian on, sadly it crashed regularly :(

NetBSD runs on Mac LCs.

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