From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 26 2:36:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from logatome.micronet.fr (logatome-2.francenet.fr [193.149.96.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F15C15AA1 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 02:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from e-masson@kisoft-services.com) Received: from kisoft-services.com (Nantes10.francenet.net [193.149.110.74]) by logatome.micronet.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15620; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <37C5068D.E814158D@kisoft-services.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:19:09 +0200 From: Eric MASSON Organization: Kisoft Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [fr] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Joey Garcia , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and PowerPC (The IBM Motherboard Thing) References: <3.0.6.32.19990825202015.00799af0@we.mediaone.net> <19990826095106.A64463@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, > You won't be putting FreeBSD on the AS/400 anytime soon. AS/400 has a > totally different supporting architecture when compared to things like > the Macintosh, which I believe is based on the CHRP (Common Hardware > Reference Platform), the same as the RS/6000's. Not so much, RS/6000 and AS/400 have more than 90% common in design and this will increase with next generations of AS/400 (why bother with 2 different hardware lines if one can handle both os ?) Eric MASSON -- Any opinions expressed above are my own, not Kisoft's Murphy's Law Corollary : Murphy was an optimist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message