Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:24:23 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@seattleFenix.net>, Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>, Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208221722590.17860-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20020822205146.GA36456@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, David Kelly wrote: > 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 > > [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". > <OT> IBM made the chips for the first couple revs, and Motorola has been doing the fab work for the last 2 years. Word is that, due to Motorola's yield problems, that fab work may go back to IBM. </OT> /* * John Bleichert * syborg@stny.rr.com * http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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