From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 07:45:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA28957 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:45:25 -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 HAA28949 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id HAA43442; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:45:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 07:45:19 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: David Kelly cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PowerPC Port? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, David Kelly wrote: > At 6:03 PM 3/4/96, Dave Walton wrote: > >Which Motorola hardware would you be referring to? Every Mac in the > >world has a Motorola CPU in it. ;) > > Is Motorola actually in production of the PowerPC chip now? Initially only > IBM was building the 601 but lately I've seen PowerMac listings saying they > have a 601+, whatever that means. My PowerMac 8100/80 has an IBM 601. I know IBM built the 601, but my understanding is that Motorola builds the newer models (603, 604, etc). > And I've got some 128k and 512k Mac motherboards laying around with Hitachi > 68000's on them. :-) Ok, ok... "Motorola-designed". Better? :) 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 ==========================================================================