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From: briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: {Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD} port to PowerPC?
Date: 7 Apr 1994 14:16:03 GMT
Organization: ACM Student Machine
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In <hO5OS8Z.dysonj@delphi.com> John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> writes:
>I am expecting that the first port of FreeBSD to another architecture
>will be to a PowerPC
As long as you guys don't run it in little-endian mode ;-)
In article <michaelv.765698348@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>I just got done reading all the PowerPC stuff in the April Byte
>magazine, and I simply can't wait to get my hands on one and poke
>around at the preliminaries of a NetBSD port. :-)
I'm doing so... Looks like it will be _interesting_ ;-)
Is IBM releasing any docs on their machines?
-allen
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