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From: jsm9153@visio.com (Jeremy Malli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: BSD for PowerPC?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:15:19 -0700
Organization: Visionary Communications
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In article <CYOUNG.95Jan10144237@zinfandel.harvard.edu>,
cyoung@zinfandel.harvard.edu (Cliff Young) wrote:

> My apologies if this is an FAQ.  Does anyone know of any ports of
> BSD to the PowerPC architecture?
> 
> I'm doing research on static branch prediction, and PPC is one of the
> few current, popular architectures that has static branch prediction
> bits.  
> 
> Thanks for your help.  
> 
> --Cliff

I was just paging through the most recent issue of MacMall and noticed a
Berkeley BSD UNIX port to the Macintosh called Professional Mach Ten and
it's accelerated for the PowerMac.  It also states that it will run on
Classic as well ( there's a heck of marketing strategy ).  MacMalls Phone
number is 800-222-2808.  The price quoted was $579.99.  It sounds like an
excellent way to do UNIX.

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