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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!taligent!apple.com!mac1002.kip.apple.com!user From: Mark_Cookson@quickmail.apple.com (Mark Cookson) 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: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:51:18 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <Mark_Cookson-1909951051180001@mac1002.kip.apple.com> References: <aberenzw-0909952243200001@pierson-college-kstar-node.net.yale.edu> <DEr9vL.vA@yedi.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: mac1002.kip.apple.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.mac.misc:94801 comp.sys.mac.system:99240 comp.sys.mac.hardware:149556 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6175 In article <DEr9vL.vA@yedi.iaf.nl>, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) wrote: >aberenzw@minerva.cis.yale.edu (_madAdam_) writes: > >>Hiya. > >>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? > >It sounds hairy to me. But why not give it a try? It won't work. Nothing that requires direct access to the hardware will work with Apple's DOS card. OS/2, Windows NT, Linux and others will not work. I don't know about using an Orange Micro card, however. Mark