[rescue] RS6000 boxen

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jan 22 23:15:49 CST 2002


  There are a lot of people who want NetBSD on POWER-architecture
RS/6000 machines, myself very much included.  I believe there is such
an effort underway, but there's much work to be done.

      -Dave

On January 22, dave venable wrote:
> I thought netbsd would run on anything, I may be able to get my hands on a
> copy of AIX 4.xx.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Drew Whittle
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 6:49 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: low-end octane2? (was: Re: [rescue] octane question)
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 14:33, dave venable wrote:
> > I can get one of these free. Is it worth a rescue?
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1323941658
> >
> 
> Even if you don't want it, rescue it, gut it, and put good stuff[tm] in
> a box and ship to me. (I have one of these beasties). *cheeky grin*
> 
> They are old, slow, run only up to AIX 3.2 and can't run Linux/etc
> 
> :D
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-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf



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