Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 01:44:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gryph@mindless.com (D.M.P.) Cc: andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM, kris@airnet.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) Message-ID: <199910070144.SAA21696@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <37FAD45F.9A04C962@mindless.com> from "D.M.P." at Oct 5, 99 09:47:27 pm
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> Will Andrews wrote: > > On 05-Oct-99 Kris Kirby wrote: > >> It wasn't that long ago that I began to think about the fact that Apple > >> had contacted the FreeBSD folks (-core, I think) about including some > >> parts into Mac OS X. For some reason, I thought about the possiblity of > >> porting FreeBSD to the "Mac" platform and was suddenly enlightened. > >> However, if Mac OS X doesn't run on 68K machines, I see no reason why we > >> can't ask for a little help in porting... > > > > The 68K machines are, as far as I'm concerned, obsolete. The last one > > I used regularly (once or more a day) was the Mac LC 575, and that > > was in 1995. I do not care anymore for such worthless hardware. If > > you have a junky one around, it's probably good enough that NetBSD > > would be able to run on it (I think). > > Don't count 68k's out just yet. There's quite a few Performa and > Quadra systems still in use as firewall boxes or low-traffic mail > servers. Just as one would use a 486 for the same jobs with FreeBSD. FWIW: Name: Palm Vx Availability: October 4 Cost: $449 (http://www.palm.com/products/palmvx/index.html) RAM: 8MB Network: iRDA Processor: 68328 <-- Note Keyboard: Serial (KeySync Palm Keyboard DKP62, $69.00) This is enough memory to run a 68x FreeBSD on a Palm Pilot. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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