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From: sinan@u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu)
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Subject: Re: Interested in PowerPC for Linux / FreeBSD / NetBSD?
Date: 30 Dec 1994 00:09:46 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <3dl3sv$jj@starbase.neosoft.com>,
jpsb <jpsb@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> wrote:
>thank you every much. My new home computer is a PowerPC runing AIX 3.2.5 now 
>if i could only get this damn PC on my home network! Not as easy as the NT 
>folks claim. I almost ready to give up on NT and put Solaris 2.4 on the PC, 
>in the hope that WABI 2.0 will let me run MS word and MS filght simulator.

Go for it. You can still order Solaris 2.4 and ProWorks/C/C++ for $695,
thru tomorrow(I believe) from Sun Express .........

Sinan

PS: Muzaffer should do this also so he can see how windows apps 
can run under X......)

>
>jim shirreffs
>i speak for myself and only myself