Re: I should like...

[Ken Nakata <kenn%synap.ne.jp@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 23:22:17 +0100, Fabrizio Catalano wrote:
> I should like to do something about porting of NetBSD to NuBus & PowerPC
> 601 Macs, but I'm absolutely ignorant at this subject.

I'm not the best person on the subject.  Please consult
port-powerpc%NetBSD.ORG@localhost and/or port-macppc%NetBSD.ORG@localhost (to 
which I
CC'ed this message).  I'm sure someone will be able to help you.

> My English is basic (auto didact) and I've some difficult to understand
> the understoods and implied meanings so widely used in mail messages.
> I'm a 38 years old man graduate as software analyst, but more than 20 years
> ago! FORTRAN, COBOL and PL1 on an Honeywell G118 (32k RAM) was my starting
> point. I like Macs, and now, as employee, I use MacOs, Windows and Solaris
> boxes at job and I've succesfully set up a NetBSD (Quadra 700) as IP-NAT,
> netatalk and Samba server with the help of port-mac68k mailing list.
> Now the subject is that I should like to do some job to port NetBSD to
> PowerPC Macintoshes near the end of life (6100-7100-8100); I've one at home
> (8100/100) and a lot of them at job. I need help about how to begin (what
> to read, what to do and so on...).
> Thanks in advance.
> Fabrizio
> 

Ken