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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 19 Dec 1994 19:48:01 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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Message-ID: <3d4o1h$7bh@galaxy.ucr.edu>
References: <3cilp3$143@news-2.csn.net> <D1260u.KIu@odin.diku.dk> <MICHAELV.94Dec19115633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Dec19115633@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> wrote:
>In article <D1260u.KIu@odin.diku.dk> shepherd@diku.dk (Sam Hepworth) writes:
>
>   There has been roumers about a PowerPC 615 chip that would
>   be pin compatible with the P24T. If this is true, and there is
>   some way to fix BIOS incompabilities, I would be
>   able to upgrade my 80486 to a PowerPC without the cost of buying
>   a new computer. MicroSoft or IBM may not be interrested in
>   porting their operating systems to this kind of platform, so
>   Linux or NetBSD may become the only way to get it running...
>
>Windows NT already runs on PowerPC processors...

er... Like the man said, Linux or NetBSD may become the only way to
get it running!

Windows NT is a joke! It is fine for simple folk who want to play 
solitaire, type their letters is MS Word, and run whatever the latest 
trendy MS applications happen to be, but it has no place in a serious 
UNIX network.

I must say, I have had some amusing experiences exploring the "networking"
capabilities of the NT "advanced server"...It would have been funny, except
for the fact that many clueless types are actually taking NT seriously!

--
 jjs@wintermute.ucr.edu            / You can't figure out how to
 A linux machine! because a 486    / ACCELERATE your Windoze NT box?
 is a terrible thing to waste!     / -9.8 m/s^2 works quite well!!!