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Subject: Re: IBM RS/6000 43p model 150
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Hi Jeremie,

> My company was about to throw away an old unused IBM RS/6000 43p model
> 150 but I fortunately swerved it to my home instead :-).
> It seems the spec is available here:
>   http://www.spec.org/gpc/June99/plb/IBM/summary/IBM.001.html
> 
> Is it possible to run FreeBSD/ppc on this hardware?

  Possible, yes, I think so thought it is going to take some work. The 
604e looks a lot like a G3/G4. However, I have no idea what i/o h/w 
looks like in this box and that would be where the work would lie.

> FYI, this is a CHRP machine.

  I think Linux uses OpenFirmware RTAS to access h/w in these machines: 
that would also be possible with FreeBSD/ppc.

later,

Peter.