From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 5 09:45:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA10886 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:45:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from oznet16.ozemail.com.au (oznet16.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA10876 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 09:45:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from oznet02.ozemail.com.au (oznet02.ozemail.com.au [203.2.192.124]) by oznet16.ozemail.com.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) with ESMTP id DAA19628; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 03:45:07 +1000 (EST) Received: from default (slmel5p38.ozemail.com.au [203.15.163.198]) by oznet02.ozemail.com.au (8.7.1/8.6.12) with SMTP id DAA20896; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 03:45:03 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <313C7C2E.1062@ozemail.com.au> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 03:38:54 +1000 From: Richard Lyon X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Walton CC: Terry Lambert , steveb@tor.mcd.mot.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PowerPC Port? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > 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?) > Motorola does produce a workstation range based on the power pc. The specifications look ok but I would imagine the price is high. Currently the only operating system supported is Windows NT. (Billy boy must be laughing all the way to the bank.) These machines are generally used for industrial type applications, etc ... I would imagine that Motorola would be interested in having another operating system available for their hardware. Regards ...