From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 25 21:23:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA06162 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:23:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA06140; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 21:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04776; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:31:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:31:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: ben@rosengart.com cc: Gary Palmer , alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.edu, Paul Richards , "'Philippe Regnauld'" , Chuck Robey , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Threads across processors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Snob Art Genre wrote: > I'd give my eye teeth to be able to run FreeBSD on Macintoshes. Agreed; while I'm sure we all agree that MacOS blows[1], the modern Mac hardware leaves PCs in the dust. Don't crucify me for admitting to this, but I do run Linux on a Mac 7600/132 (that's a 132MHz PPC) and it absolutely flies. The problem with ports to Mac hardware has always been Apple's reluctance to release the required information, but the existence of two independent ports of Linux to the PPC (one sanctioned by Apple) indicates that Apple's attitude has changed. NetBSD actually has an experimental PowerMac port in progress. Last I checked, it was booting succesfully into single-user mode. Chuck Youse [1] This is an unfair criticism, as MacOS was ahead of its time when it was designed nearly 20 years ago, and ran on hardware primitive by today's standards. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message