From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 22 16:47:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA10406 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 16:47:44 -0700 (PDT) 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 QAA10397 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 16:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA05640; Wed, 22 May 1996 16:42:35 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199605222342.QAA05640@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: MkLinux for PowerMac available! To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:42:35 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at May 22, 96 04:36:50 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-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > The PPC stuff I have going is all 603 based stuff; I *think* it's > > OK for a 604, but I'm pretty sure that it is *not* OK for a 601 > > (I was planning a BeBox port eventually, if I can catch up with > > the FreeBSD kernel changes; that should do both the 601 and the > > SMP MEI-as-opposed-to-MESI cache coherency model work). > > Hmmm.. I've been reading about the BeBox. My existing PC is a fine > workhorse, even though it is only a 486DX4/100, I haven't needed any more > CPU personally. Still, it would be nice to upgrade one day to the fastest > system I can buy and host Unix on. Do you think the BeBox will pan out on > a pure price/performance level (assuming an SMP OS, of course) vs. a > single-CPU high-end Pentium? Also, if the whole point of the BeBox is to > host BeOS, then why port Unix to it at all? I'm not criticizing, just > asking your opinion. I have a registered developer ID with Be. The developer pricing on a full system with docs, with no head, is US$1700. I haven't gotten one yet because I'm still working on the 603/604 Ultra PPC motherboard port (the same motherboard Motorolla uses for the PowerStack stuff they sell). > > I am *very* interested in playing in the PowerMac/PowerMac clone > > sandbox. 8-). > > Me too. I would be installing it at work, if not for the fact that I > have access to multiple SPARC 20's and only one PowerMac which other > people are using. Tomorrow, I will try it at school on an external SCSI > disk hooked up to a PowerMac in a friend's computer lab. Perhaps, like > the FreeBSD box in the same lab (buk.smll.csupomona.edu), we can put some > accounts and Web pages on it, and make it available to other students. I > think the PowerMac is a fine platform, which is hampered by a fragile > OS. Putting Unix on it is one way to find out its true capabilities. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.