From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 3 16:44:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA17659 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:44:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-0138.jumpnet.com [207.8.61.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA17642 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 16:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.7/8.8.3) id SAA26331; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 18:44:39 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RS6000 References: <345DFB89.3005@optionomics.com> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 03 Nov 1997 18:44:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: Wade's message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 09:27:53 -0700" Message-ID: <85iuu9cwtk.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 19.15 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wade writes: > I currently own an 8 year old rs6000, and was wondering if there was any > way in the world to get FreeBSD to work on it? Maybe this is a silly > question but I just thought I would ask. I dont have the original UNIX > release tapes that came with it and at the moment its a door stop. No, FreeBSD only works on Intel x86 processors, now POWER or PowerPC. Maybe NetBSD or OpenBSD works on the RS/6000, but I don't really know. There's also this operating system called AIX that IBM sells that works just fine on RS/6000 :-). -Dave (an IBM AIX developer)