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I searched for this luna88k and was taken to a Wikipedia page that I read until I realized it was for a computer called LUNA but it had a 68k processor.

The reason it came up was a tiny quote from the NetBSD announcement of Luna 68k support which mentions its "rare cousin" the 88k LUNA.

Now that's niche!

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Also a good example of what I understand the OpenBSD development goals to be: developers work on the features and hardware support that interest them. It isn't a popularity contest; targeting the most popular platforms or growing the number of users of OpenBSD is not a project goal.

So as long as there are developers who want to do the work to support the 88k LUNA (whatever it is) then it will happen.

More specifically:

https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html

I thought I knew a lot about 68k processors, but "88k" is new to me. It turns out to be the Motorola 88100¹, which was used in Unisys servers running Unix.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_88100

I only know about the 88k since Apple prototyped using it for their first RISC Mac back in the day before pushing for the PowerPC alliance

NeXT as well I believe!

M'y physics prof loved his NeXT machine back in the day.

Data General built a machine called the Aviion with the 88K.

Motorola had a lot of VME bus boards with 88100/88110 CPUs. There's still a web site dedicated to the 88k CPUs at http://www.m88k.com

Fun fact - the 88k was designed by Mitch Alsup, who also designed SPARC CPUs for Ross, x86s for AMD and others. He is retired, but still active in the comp.arch Usenet newsgroup.

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