From owner-freebsd-platforms Mon Oct 13 19:48:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14586 for platforms-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-platforms) Received: from azrael.uoregon.edu (azrael.uoregon.edu [128.223.194.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14512; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wesman@azrael.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (wesman@localhost) by azrael.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05323; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:48:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:48:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Wesley Horner Reply-To: wesman@oregon.uoregon.edu To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? In-Reply-To: <199710132359.SAA10181@nospam.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The reason macosrumors can't be reache is because of an Alternet problem. They aren't the only site that can't be reached. I would love to run freebsd on a ppc chip. wes ~~~~wesman@gladstone.uoregon.edu~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Vax a viscious creature known to eat 110AC and quotes through its *DCL*. Vax are usually found in groups of Vaxen called clusters where they lay in wait to ravage thier prey known as users. On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: > > > esp. when the last power-pc-based computers have been designed? > > > > Your opinion. I don't think IBM can dump it's server line that > > quickly, and Motorola is still building PowerStack systems, FirePower > > is still building their boxes, etc.. > > My opinion is the PowerPC is not dead. Alpha is treading on dangerous > ground attempting to court Intel. > > Hot rumor yesterday on http://www.macosrumors.com was that Motorola > and UMAX, unhappy with Apple's recent licensing about-face, were each > preparing separate take over attempts. At the same time there is a > move within Apple to merge or be bought out by Oracle in order to > prevent Motorola or UMAX from being able to swallow them. > > Possibly the most interesting thing about that tidbit is today that > site has been unreachable from my work or home connections. > > -- > 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. > > >