From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 16:03:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA10530 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10519 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id QAA50634; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:03:11 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 16:03:11 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: Terry Lambert cc: terry@lambert.org, steveb@tor.mcd.mot.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PowerPC Port? In-Reply-To: <199603042152.OAA06738@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > I just recently have become familiar with FreeBSD. Do you know if anyone > > > > out there has tried to do a PowerPC port? > > > > > > Yes. I have a port in progress. > > > > For another option, check out http://www.tenon.com > > MachTen is a bit more pricey than FreeBSD, but it's available now. > > 1) He's from Motorolla, so he's probably using Motorolla hardware. Good point. He did say PowerPC, didn't he? I automatically parsed that to PowerMac and ran with it, 'cuz I think the only non-Apple PowerPC I've seen is the BeBox. (Have you seen that one? Impressions?) > The *is* another non-OSF Mach port in progress, but it is far > from complete. This port *will* document the hardware. By > the time this happens, I suspect that the Apple hardware it > documents will no longer be "interesting" (just like the Linux > and NetBSD Mac 68k ports document the 68k Mac hardware, but > few people actually care, and no one buys a new 68k Mac just > to run the code). > > All in all, the Motorolla hardware is more interesting anyway. Which Motorola hardware would you be referring to? Every Mac in the world has a Motorola CPU in it. ;) Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================