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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 1996 11:26:48 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, kegrotla@korrnet.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: IBM 57SLC
Message-ID:  <199611261826.LAA25369@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0vSEvW-00007z-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 25, 96 09:15:18 pm

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> : > Oh by the way i have heard a rumour that MAC PowerPCs will support
> : > FreeBSD. Any truth to this. That would be just totally awsome. Running
> : > FreeBSD on a RISC chip machine.
> : 
> : I think it's false.  I've certainly not heard of any plans to do this.
> 
> Oh, I just realized that NetBSD just had a whole slug of Power PC
> stuff checked into it.  I don't know which machines they support at
> this time, but that might be a reasonable alternative.

The stuff I've seen uses the ROM's.  It's an interesting science project,
but it's not  port until it has native drivers that don'e single-thread
all computation on the machine pending I/O completion.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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