From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 6 09:38:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA07274 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:38:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA07269 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 09:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA11270; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:34:57 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603061734.KAA11270@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: PowerPC Port? To: jmr@computing.com (Jim Rowan) Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:34:57 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603060515.XAA04633@zee.computing.com> from "Jim Rowan" at Mar 5, 96 11:15:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > rlyon> Motorola does produce a workstation range based on the power pc. The > rlyon> specifications look ok but I would imagine the price is > rlyon> high. Currently the only operating system supported is Windows > rlyon> NT. (Billy boy must be laughing all the way to the bank.) > > Actually, they also run AIX. Yep. This is what I'm running as my cross-environment. > rlyon> These machines are generally used for industrial type applications, > rlyon> etc ... > > Maybe you're talking about their motherboard and embedded product line? The > workstations are fairly standard machines, suited for many applications... The FreeBSD port is intended for use in embedded systems by the company that provided the loaner. It will just happen to also run everything it needs to run to be a real port, as well. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.