NetBSD 0.9

NetBSD 0.9 on VMWare

For notes going on about NetBSD 0.9, which was released around August 20th, 1993.

• NetBSD 0.9 announcement

platforms

From the source code NetBSD 0.9 supported the following platforms:

• Amiga
• HP300
• i386

Now that I found one, I guess ill have more 'significant notes'.

for now I've simply mirrored the install directory on my server....

mirror of NetBSD 0.9

I should also add I've had disk geometry errors with Bochs, and DMA and no ide detection under virtual box.. Virtual PC seems to just hang at the hard disk... However VMWare Fusion 3.1.1 on OS X works great!

dmesg

This is from the generic kernel

NetBSD 0.9 (GENERICAHA) #17: Wed Aug 25 20:01:15 PDT 1993
   cgd@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu:/e/users/cgd/trees/0.9-kernel/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERICAHA
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real mem  = 16773120
avail mem = 15314944
using 115 buffers containing 942080 bytes of memory
pc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on isa
pc0: color
com0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
com0: fifo
com1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
om1: fifo
lpa0 at 0x378-0x37f on isa
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wd0 at wdc0 targ 0: 511MB 1040 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec <VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive>
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fd0 at fdc0 targ 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
npx0 at 0xf0-0xff on isa
npx0: using exception 16
biomask 4040 ttymask 1a netmask 8000 impmask 1a

games

Games that are included in NetBSD 0.9 ..

arithmetic	cfscores	hangman		ppt		snscore
atc		chess		hide		primes		teachgammon
backgammon	cribbage	larn		quiz		trek
banner		dm		mille		rain		wargames
battlestar	factor		monop		robots		worm
bcd		fish		morse		rogue		worms
caesar		fortune		number		sail		wump
canfield	hack		pom		snake