Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:03:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jehamby@lightside.com Cc: mark@quickweb.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD/Alpha (was Re: COMDEX trip report) Message-ID: <199612020003.RAA09460@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199612011925.LAA18010@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Dec 1, 96 11:24:05 am
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FYI: Motorolla demonstrated a 1GHz PPC machine running in a lab more than a year ago to a number of visiting university professors who were in town for a conference and took a tour of their facility. 1GHz. This was Motorolla's own stuff. The "Expotential" stuff is running PPC architecture chips at .5GHz in the lab, right now (as noted). > >One more thing: wasn't Terry doing something with FreeBSD and PowerPC's ? > > I think so, but I don't know if it's still on track. It's on track. I've been off track from my injury. I have to get orthopedic furniture to let me sit hunched over for hours over a PC any more. My chair at home is a government surplus offic chair and just doesn't cut it for my back any more. 8-(. I had a number of problems getting doc for the PPCBug ROM stuff for the boot loader. I still don't have a happy console. I have a very old VM and a signle user shell (I can't fork yet). I have spent over $500 on doc which has never arrived. 8-(. I have to admit that I have not done much on it since my accident... about the same time, I was switched to an application level project at work, and haven't been able to combine work with BSD kernel hacking since then. 8-(. There is work on the PPC in the NetBSD and OpenBSD camps... and I'm not talking about the PowerMac hosted stuff that NetBSD recently checked into their tree, I'm talking real stuff (a Motorolla employee has been doing the work -- it's not checked in at all as far as I know). So I would say the PPC is far from dead. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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