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Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2003 06:57:13 -0700
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> I've already got my own XCOFF image loading, I just can't see
> it yet. Only 1,000 more things to go!
>

I don't think getting Plan 9 working on a power pc mac is as
hard as some of the archived discussions might indicate. With
the NetBSD macppc source, you can easily find alot of the
low level software/hardware interface issues solved, and
recent macs use PCI, ATI graphics and IDE drives, so the
hardware isn't totally proprietary anymore.

One suggestion though: NetBSD's 'macppc' port, v1.5, had some
buggy USB code, which is fixed in 1.6.1.

Good Luck! (I have an iMac I'd  like to run Plan 9 on)