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  <h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>
  <p>
- The hp300 port has no architecture specific changes from the
+ The NetBSD/hp300 port is unable to run executables from any of the
- NetBSD/hp300 port.
+ other m68k architectures because it uses executables with a 4K page
+ size.  All the other m68k ports use 8K pagesize executables.  There
+ are 3 other m68k ports (sun3, amiga, atari) that use a HARDWARE 8K
+ pagesize, and will never be able to efficiently run 4K executables.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ As a result, OpenBSD/hp300 was changed to use 8K executables as well.
+ For compatibility, it can also run the old 4K executables.  No
+ measurable performance losses or filesize increases are incurred by
+ using 8K pagesize executables.
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