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In Reply to this Note From: <Paul Colley>
>
>In article <MIB.91Sep16161142@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> 
>mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
>
>>              The initial release will be for the 386.  It will be
>>possible to be a beta-tester; I will make a public announcement when
>>it is appropriate.
>
>What hardware is needed/recommended to run the projected GNU OS?
>
>More concretely, I have...
>
>A 386, 4 Meg ram, 100 Meg hard drive, super VGA colour, the usual etc.'s.
>
>I suspect that I'm very low on disk space for GNU.  How much should I
>plan on buying?  How about ram?
>
>Thanks for any information,
>
>- Paul Colley
>  pacolley@violet.waterloo.edu   ...!watmath!ember!pacolley

The Mach project is planning an initial 80386 release, but the GNU
Manifesto has identified the Motorola 68000 (aka Macintosh and Sun3)
architecture as the target architecure for the initial release.  I
suppose that this means that the LPF must port Mach from the 80386 to
the M68000 for the first release of GNU/OS.

They might find it easier to change the requirements in the GNU
Manifesto to accomodate the 80386 as an initial target.  That would
satisfy a lot of Personal Computer users, especially because Suns cost
so much more than Intel-based PC's, and the Sun-3 architecture is now
obsolete.  Would it not be ironic if the first version of GNU/OS only
ran on Macintoshes?  :-)  -David-

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