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<h2>OpenBSD/hp300</h2>

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<h3><strong>History and Status:</strong></h3>

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The NetBSD/hp300 port is unable to run executables from any of the
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.
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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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