If anyone hears of Linux for the PowerMac out there, drop me (us) a line.
I broke down and bought a PPC 7100/66. (I know, you're all choked up over
the cruelty of fate for me. . .)

We've been using Linux on a 486 box here at the office, and it almost
makes me like Intel architecture. Now if XWindows primitives could take
advantage of Toolbox calls. . .

Anyway, I would really like to have any information available on a PPC
port of any UNIX OS. 

-Spencer Smith
(Man, or Myth?)

On Tue, 12 Jul 1994, Aaron Huslage wrote:

> 
> Also...Linux is also reportedly being ported to Power Mac, and is also in 
> alpha. I wouldn't even know where to tell you to get it!
> 
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> 
> On Sat, 9 Jul 1994, Allen Briggs wrote:
> 
> > > The Quadra 650 does indeed have the fully functional '040 chip. So in a
> > > certain sense,it might be a very similar machine to the Q700. I can hope,
> > > at least.
> > 
> > I wish I could tell you outright...  :-(
> > 
> > > I know that there's a
> > > flavor of UNIX that IBM has to rum on the PowerPC chip, and I guess Apple
> > > is getting ready to drop PowerOpen on the chip. Has anyone heard anything
> > > about these flavors, is there going to MacBSD for the Powermac?
> > 
> > There may be a BSD for the PowerPC, but it'll be a while...  For the Mac
> > port, we had a working 68k port to work from.  There is some work on a
> > PowerPC version of NetBSD in the works, but I don't know if it'll be for
> > the IBM or the Apple machines--I've got my hands full, now, with the 68k
> > port, and no PowerMac...  In either case, it's going to be a lot of work
> > and I won't count on the current effort getting anywhere until the code
> > shows up in the tree.  ;-)
> > 
> > IBM's AIX for the PPC won't run on Apple's hardware.  PowerOpen
> > will run on some of Apple's hardware, but it's not clear if it'll ever
> > run on the ones that are already shipping--I think not.
> > 
> > There will be, however, MachTen from Tenon Intersystems if you want to
> > run Unix on the PowerMac...  It's already running in emulation and will
> > be native this year, I believe.
> > 
> > -allen
> > 
> > -- 
> > Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@vt.edu ** MacBSD == NetBSD/Mac **
> > = Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own [...]  =
> > == It's a shame to have to die to put the shadow on our eyes.  We don't  ==
> > === want to care. Under the bridge. Over the phone. Wind on the Water.  ===
> > 



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