From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 30 16:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC62F14C32 for ; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 16:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-208-170-118-195.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.170.118.195]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA08507; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:23:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA53556; Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:23:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199912310023.SAA53556@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jesse Tilly Cc: "'freebsd-chat'" From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Unix World Jan 1991 - 10 Predictions for the '90s In-reply-to: Message from Jesse Tilly of "Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:53:47 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 18:23:00 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jesse Tilly writes: > "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated" > > The PowerPC is alive and kicking. Not only does it power all Apple > computers (the G3 and G4 are PowerPC generational chips), but they power > IBM's top-o-tha-line RS/6000 workstations. Not to mention successes in the embedded market. Can't find the reference right now but somehow I got the idea Kodak's current digital cameras were PowerPC based. Someone ported an Atari 2600 emulator to the DC-265 and there is a picture of it (and most everything you need to download) playing Donkey Kong: http://members.aol.com/JWSurine/ Next year we'll be hearing a lot from the Apple PowerPC group as MacOS X, the user version, is due out in February, and is recognized as a bona fide BSD derivative. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message