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Date:      03 Nov 1997 18:44:07 -0600
From:      Dave Marquardt <marquard@zilker.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RS6000
Message-ID:  <85iuu9cwtk.fsf@localhost.zilker.net>
In-Reply-To: Wade's message of "Mon, 03 Nov 1997 09:27:53 -0700"
References:  <345DFB89.3005@optionomics.com>

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Wade <Wade@optionomics.com> writes:
> I currently own an 8 year old rs6000, and was wondering if there was any
> way in the world to get FreeBSD to work on it? Maybe this is a silly
> question but I just thought I would ask. I dont have the original UNIX
> release tapes that came with it and at the moment its a door stop.

No, FreeBSD only works on Intel x86 processors, now POWER or PowerPC.
Maybe NetBSD or OpenBSD works on the RS/6000, but I don't really
know.  There's also this operating system called AIX that IBM sells
that works just fine on RS/6000 :-).

-Dave (an IBM AIX developer)



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