From: shepard47 <shepard47@protonmail.com>
To: "9front@9front.org" <9front@9front.org>
Subject: Re: [9front] 9front on PowerMac
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:21:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <RAes9cx4-vjq-bdKS2W0k6HytekkKy6qYjEf0G9Gxf92Uo3Pj5ezrVuxmxfBKeAkdZDxERnRex8sziwFWunNmbl1l1iIXKGh1XEXK62rCB4=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E11CB38F-838E-48A1-BADA-9B7A596EACFD@pobox.com>
Thank you. I have linux running on the machine.
On what PowerPC hardware does 9front work?
‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:03 PM, David Arnold <davida@pobox.com> wrote:
> David Arnold
> 0487 183 494
>
> > On 18 Dec 2020, at 08:41, Steve Simon steve@quintile.net wrote:
> > i dont know of any port.
> > i also think the hardware of the ppc macs is not well documented, which would make a port very hard.
>
> There are two different PPC Macintosh architectures from Apple: the initial systems were NuBus-based, while later models adopted the PCI bus. Associated with that change was a general adoption of the “PC” architecture, eg. switching from SCSI discs to IDE.
>
> There are open source operating systems for both architectures available should you need example code.
>
> d
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 19:31 shepard47
2020-12-17 21:40 ` Steve Simon
2020-12-17 22:03 ` David Arnold
2020-12-18 12:21 ` shepard47 [this message]
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