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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!xmission!mac.visio.com!user From: jsm9153@visio.com (Jeremy Malli) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: BSD for PowerPC? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:15:19 -0700 Organization: Visionary Communications Lines: 24 Distribution: world Message-ID: <jsm9153-1101951515190001@mac.visio.com> References: <CYOUNG.95Jan10144237@zinfandel.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac.visio.com In article <CYOUNG.95Jan10144237@zinfandel.harvard.edu>, cyoung@zinfandel.harvard.edu (Cliff Young) wrote: > My apologies if this is an FAQ. Does anyone know of any ports of > BSD to the PowerPC architecture? > > I'm doing research on static branch prediction, and PPC is one of the > few current, popular architectures that has static branch prediction > bits. > > Thanks for your help. > > --Cliff I was just paging through the most recent issue of MacMall and noticed a Berkeley BSD UNIX port to the Macintosh called Professional Mach Ten and it's accelerated for the PowerMac. It also states that it will run on Classic as well ( there's a heck of marketing strategy ). MacMalls Phone number is 800-222-2808. The price quoted was $579.99. It sounds like an excellent way to do UNIX. -- * Cogito Magna * jsm9153@visio.com