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From: crisper@best.com (Crisper Than Thou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BSD UNIX on a PowerMac??
Date: 11 Sep 1995 12:10:26 -0700
Organization: The Crisper Mind
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_madAdam_ <aberenzw@minerva.cis.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know of anyone running FreeBSD or something on the DOS
>Compatiblity card of a PPC?  I'm not sure how close they're saying that
>the board is to a real DOS machine, but is it close enough to run BSD with
>not too much trouble?
>Or linux?

Since this is the first time I've seen this question _THIS_ week, I'll
 go ahead and answer.

No, the DOS card (at least, the one that Apple designed) will not run
 any flavor of Unix, Linux, Windows NT, or OS/2. I doubt the Orange
 card will either.

You want BSD-flavor Unix on a Mac, I've heard good things about
 MachTen.

	--The Elder Dan


-- 
I don't have time to be a puppet of the status quo.

http://www.armory.com/~crisper/                              crisper@armory.com