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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!briggs From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: PowerMac BSD? any plans? Date: 7 Dec 1995 14:45:49 GMT Organization: Home, Blacksburg, Virginia Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4a6umt$7jj@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <49ftkc$1sl6@plucky.cs.utexas.edu> <4a2m4e$991@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us NNTP-Posting-User: briggs In article <4a2m4e$991@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >panama@cs.utexas.edu (Michael V. Hoffman) wrote: >] I would like to know if there is a port of BSD in the works for >] the PowerMacs. Anyone know? >Yes, PowerMac's which conform to CHRP or some other publically >available standard. >Which means older non-CHRP PowerMac oweners are probably going to >be orphaned unless they can get someone to cough up documentation. Well, the 2nd generation PowerMacs have a lot in common with CHRP machines and might not be a stretch. The 1st generation machines are much more problematic (because of a lack of h/w documentation). By 2nd generation, I mean OpenFirmware-compliant PCI PowerMacs. -allen -- Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k ** Where does all my time go? <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>