Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 15:51:46 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net> Cc: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Message-ID: <20020822205146.GA36456@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020822130841.G26883@mail.seattleFenix.net> References: <69122C86-B56D-11D6-8C70-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> <1029964014.226.3.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> <20020822130841.G26883@mail.seattleFenix.net>
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[moved to -chat] On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:08:41PM -0700, Benjamin Krueger wrote: > > Apple does not own PowerPC, it belongs to IBM. Is a joint project owned at least in part by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. The CPU is derived from IBM's RS-6000 RISC. The MMU is from Motorola's 88000 RISC. Apple brought the two others together and committed to volume purchases, rendering the project into an economic feasibility. > IBM currently uses it in many of their server offerings. Apple's > current line of PowerPC cpus are an implementation manufactured by > Motorola. Motorola will sell them to folks other than Apple. In fact, > Motorola has an entire line of PowerPC products for embedded and other > systems. Have an Apple G4 sitting right here but not interested enough to verify who manufactured it to remove its heatsink. Was my understanding IBM's big bally-hoo'ed copper chip process was being used and that most if not all G4's were manufactured by IBM. Motorola's embedded PPC CPU family is called "ColdFire". -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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