[geeks] fw

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Thu Jul 25 10:06:58 CDT 2002


On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 05:13:14PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 09:07:18AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > Is this netbsd running on bare metal, or NetBSD running via Virtual PC?
> Pardon? 
> You mean: "Is NetBSD running instead of MacOS or inside a PeeCee 
> emulator on top of MacOS?"
> Odd question. Of course it runs "on bare metal". See
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/models.html
> for a list off supported machines. 

You said (and I'm paraphrasing since I'm too lazy to go copy the
direct quote), "What happens when a MacPPC running NetBSD gets
attacked by an exploit containing i386 code?".  The answer to that
depends on if you are using NetBSD/PPC or NetBSD/ia32 on you MacPPC.

--
Joshua D. Boyd



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