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Date:      Fri, 03 May 2002 00:58:23 +0100
From:      Jean-Mark Dupoux <jmdupoux@lineone.net>
To:        mpd <mpd@rochester.rr.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mac&Tosh
Message-ID:  <3CD1D29F.FCEDB40F@lineone.net>
References:  <3CD1A85C.CCAEC2E8@lineone.net> <20020502175219.A32601@rochester.rr.com>

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mpd wrote:
> 
> Please don't top-post.
> 
> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:58:04PM +0100, Jean-Mark Dupoux wrote:
> > Hello Aedan
> >
> > You cant  run any kind of BSD on a Mac, unless you have  some kind of PC
> > emulation software (VMware, Virtual PC etc) but that would be  extremely
> > resource  hungry and defeat the whole purpose probably
> 
> Wrong. NetBSD will certainly run on this hardware. OpenBSD might, as well.
> FreeBSD will not.


From what I understood, "official" support on Apple's part for OSx was
restricted to "real" G3 machines so it looks like openbsd might still
have problems but Netbsd fully suported.  Wouldnt know about the video
card though.


> 
> >
> > Didnt  realize Athlon was really  part of the K6  family, but all AMD
> > chips  are good.  Try the  mobile mailing list for specifics on your
> > model laptop though
> >
> >
> > mark
> > jmdupoux_@_lineone.net
> >
> >
> > > I have a mac 8500,  newer366 g3 card/xlr8 drivers/voodoo5 card-freebsd,
> > > netbsd or openbsd?
> 
> See above.
> 
> > > Also a Toshiba 2540 CDS,athlon K6,is this a  viable bsd box
> > > Plan would be to use toshiba as router
> 
> This should work fine with any of the BSDs, include FreeBSD.
> 
> mike
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