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Subject: Re: [9front] 9front on PowerMac
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Thank you. I have linux running on the machine.
On what PowerPC hardware does 9front work?

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> David Arnold
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> > 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 initi=
al systems were NuBus-based, while later models adopted the PCI bus. Associ=
ated with that change was a general adoption of the =E2=80=9CPC=E2=80=9D ar=
chitecture, eg. switching from SCSI discs to IDE.
>
> There are open source operating systems for both architectures available =
should you need example code.
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