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From: mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com>
To: Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupoux@lineone.net>
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Subject: Re: Mac&Tosh
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Please don't top-post.

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:58:04PM +0100, Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote:
> Hello Aedan
> 
> You cant  run any kind of BSD on a Mac, unless you have  some kind of PC
> emulation software (VMware, Virtual PC etc) but that would be  extremely
> resource  hungry and defeat the whole purpose probably

Wrong. NetBSD will certainly run on this hardware. OpenBSD might, as well.
FreeBSD will not.

> 
> Didnt  realize Athlon was really  part of the K6  family, but all AMD 
> chips  are good.  Try the  mobile mailing list for specifics on your
> model laptop though
> 
> 
> mark
> jmdupoux_@_lineone.net
> 
> 
> > I have a mac 8500,  newer366 g3 card/xlr8 drivers/voodoo5 card-freebsd,
> > netbsd or openbsd? 

See above.

> > Also a Toshiba 2540 CDS,athlon K6,is this a  viable bsd box
> > Plan would be to use toshiba as router

This should work fine with any of the BSDs, include FreeBSD.


mike
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