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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD for the MacIntosh?
Date: 9 Jan 1994 05:55:55 GMT
Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT
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In article <1994Jan7.235153.24087@news.cs.indiana.edu> "Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah" <napi@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know if there's a BSD port for the Mac?  Also, is there's a plan
>to port BSD to the Apple PowerPC soon?

MacBSD is ~ NetBSD 0.8, and is available from several sites; check out
sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, for one, and docs located at that site should
list other sites (it's the home site of NetBSD).

There is great interest in the PPC, and I am sure porting will start (at
least in this neck of the woods) as soon as sufficient hardware and
documentation on the machine itself are made available -- which is to
say it probably wont happen until at least mid-March (Apple's tentative
release date according to several industry rags).  This could probably
be bumped up significantly if someone at Aplle either took pity on the
interested programmers and sent them machines and docs, or if someone
at Apple put a hand in and started the port themselves (like the early
"good old days").


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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