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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!curtiss!jth122 From: jth122@curtiss.cac.psu.edu (John Hale) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: NetBSD running on PowerMacintae? Date: 19 Jun 1994 17:03:12 GMT Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Lines: 12 Message-ID: <2u1tog$nl6@hearst.cac.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: curtiss.cac.psu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi -- forgive me if this is in the FAQ, but the docs for NetBSD (mac/M68K) say that it will not run on a macintosh that uses a 68040. To my knowledge, the emulator in the PPC macs emulates this chip. The question is, how faithfully is this emulation -- faithful enough that it would garble the 68000 code Alice had so nicely wrought? The reason I ask is mainly as a precaution before d/l'ing all the NetBSD stuff off cmu through a 2400 baud phone line. Thank God for multitasking! And on a realted subject, if there is any news on the PPC-Linux development project, I would be very appreciative toward the person who could give me a pointer in that direction. Thanks! -John Hale