Re: Apollo machines

[Jason Downs <downsj@downsj.com>]

In message <33BE3636.4F96@student.umu.se>,
	Jasse Jansson writes:
>A friend of mine have 3 old HP/Apollo 433 machines running Domain/OS
>at home nowdays. Is it possible to install OpenBSD on that machine
>or is he "doomed" to run Domain on them?

OpenBSD runs quite well on such hardware, with one exception.

Is it easy to install?  No.

>What differs between a genuine HP and Apollo?
>Only short descriptions please.

On that machine?  Not much.  The ROMs are in the wrong mode, and you need
a HIL keyboard; then you have an hp400.

Domain keyboards will be supported `soon'.

(The exception that I note above is the hp433e, which is not officially
supported.)

A complete hardware list can be found at http://www.openbsd.org/hp300.html.

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