RetroComputingRanch successfully ported NetBSD to a vintage Chyron Maxine broadcast computer, a Motorola 68040-based VME bus machine originally designed to generate text overlays for broadcast TV. The project leveraged the existing NetBSD vme168 board port, with AI agents reportedly helping condense documentation — ironic given NetBSD's ban on AI-generated code in commits. The machine has only 4 MB of RAM, though a hardware mod can expand it to 8 MB, leaving about 3 MB free after booting. Future work aims to get the vintage video hardware functional under NetBSD.
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