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This chapter contains general information about NetBSD.
NetBSD is a Unix-like operating system. It is very portable and runs on multiple architectures such as Amiga, HP, Mac, Sun3, Sparc, PC, ... It is developed by people all around the world on the Internet. Therefore it is called NetBSD. It has all the features you would expect in a modern Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management and TCP/IP networking.
For a complete description of a Unix-like operating system, please refer to some introductionary books about Unix. If you have access to Usenet, get any of the comp.unix.* Newsgroups FAQ.
See section Where can I find more information on NetBSD?, for information on how to get more and detailed information on NetBSD.
NetBSD was ported to the Amiga by Markus Wild (mw@eunet.ch), who also initially ported GCC to AmigaDOS and who did the ixemul.library. Once NetBSD-Amiga was useable, a lot of people joined in and contributed a lot to the project. I don't want to list any names, because I am sure I would forget some brave soul. The maintainer of the "projects" file produces a list of projects being worked on. Consult this file for more information about who is working on what.
See section Where can I find more information on NetBSD?, for information on how to get this file and how to contact the developers.