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From: Mark_Cookson@quickmail.apple.com (Mark Cookson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac??
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:51:18 -0700
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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In article <DEr9vL.vA@yedi.iaf.nl>, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) wrote:

>aberenzw@minerva.cis.yale.edu (_madAdam_) writes:
>
>>Hiya.
>
>>Does anyone know of anyone running FreeBSD or something on the DOS
>>Compatiblity card of a PPC?  I'm not sure how close they're saying that
>>the board is to a real DOS machine, but is it close enough to run BSD with
>>not too much trouble?
>>Or linux?
>
>It sounds hairy to me. But why not give it a try?

It won't work.  Nothing that requires direct access to the hardware will
work with Apple's DOS card.  OS/2, Windows NT, Linux and others will not
work.

I don't know about using an Orange Micro card, however.

Mark