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About NetBSD/luna68k

NetBSD/luna68k is a port of NetBSD to the LUNA product line of OMRON Tateishi Electric, Japan. The LUNA was a 20MHz/m68030 desktop computer at the age of then-booming UNIX workstations, roughly comparable to a sun3/60 and any m68020/m68030 unix boxes at that time. It is a descendent of the company's 6U VME deskside m68010 box nicknamed Supermate, and was succeeded by a m68040 variant, LUNA-II. It has a rare cousin LUNA-88K which sports 4 88k processors geared by CMU Mach2.5.

NetBSD/luna68k News

2007-12-19:   NetBSD 4.0 released
NetBSD 4.0 has been released. More information is available in the 4.0 release announcement.
2006-11-04:   NetBSD 3.1 released
NetBSD 3.1, the first maintenance release of the netbsd-3 release branch, has been released with binary distributions for 53 architectures. More information is available in the 3.1 release announcement.
2006-05-09:   binary packages for m68k available

About 1000 packages built from the latest branch pkgsrc-2006Q1 by Greg Oster are now available at ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/packages-2006Q1/NetBSD-3.0/m68k. The packages can be used on all ports based on m68k.

For some more details, see Greg Oster's announcement

2005-12-23:   NetBSD 3.0 released
NetBSD 3.0 has been released with support for 57 architectures. More information is available in the 3.0 release announcement.

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Supported System Models

NetBSD/luna68k runs on the original LUNA, and supports the following devices:

  • built-in serial port ('ttya')
  • network interface: AMD LANCE with AUI or BNC port (switch-selectable)
  • monochrome/color graphics video board
  • keyboard and mouse
  • SCSI devices; (including built-in TEAC cassette tape drive)
  • LCD on front panel; (/dev/lcd is under development)

Unsupported Models Devices

NetBSD/luna68k doesn't yet support the following devices:

  • any devices controlled by dedicated 8bit I/O processor; serial ports ('tty00, tty01'), printer parallel port ('lp'), floppy port ('rfd') and YM2149 sound generator
  • optional X.25/GP-IB multiple function board
  • NEC PC9801 C-Bus option slot

LUNA-II support is coming soon. Support for the deskside predecessors is not planned at this moment.

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