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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: Jack Holloway <holloway@midusa.net>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the PowerPC chip?
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> I was wondering, you guys run FreeBSD on A LOT of different platforms, do
> you plan on ever doing a port of it to the PowerPC chip, you know, IBM
> machines, CHRP, PREP, and PowerMacs?

FreeBSD only runs on one platform, the PC. Supposedly a port is in the
works for Digital Alpha, but I have no idea on the status of it.

NetBSD works on 68k Macs, Linux will work on Powermacs.