Just wanted to add that I heard about a Japaneese company that
is coming out with a PowerPC based computer running a Kanji BSD.

>From: Harry E Noel <hen1580@cs.rit.edu>
>Subject: Forwarded from linux PPC mailing list
>To: macbsd-general@NetBSD.ORG
>Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 00:17:54 -0400 (EDT)
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>From: "Joseph L. Brothers" <brothers@halcyon.com>
>Subject: ANNOUNCE: Linux/PowerPC Kernel
>To: linux-ppc@vger.rutgers.edu
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 1995 09:15:58 -0700 (PDT)
>Cc: chrisr@power.globalnews.com, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>
>Source code is now available for Linux 1.2 on a PowerPC platform.  The
>following files are available for anonymous ftp from
>
>    ftp://liber.stanford.edu/pub/linuxppc/
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999  3421159 Jul  7 07:48 binutils.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999  8415240 Jul  7 07:55 linux-ppc.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999  4680379 Jul  7 08:00 linux-ppc.update-950626.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999  4347391 Jul  7 08:06 linux-ppc.update-950705.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999  1834475 Jul  7 08:08 powerpc-lib.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999    10663 Jul  7 08:08 powerpc-lib.update-950626.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999    58500 Jul  7 08:08 simppc-linux.tar.gz
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp   999   268578 Jul  7 08:09 tools.tar.gz
>
>This announcement obsoletes the current FAQ and the Linux Project Map
>entry for Linux/PowerPC.  Updates will be announced when available.
>
>This release of Linux/PowerPC is fragmentary and cannot recompile
>itself.  It boots only on a Motorola 1603 board.  It has minimal
>capabilities, including ability to boot via Ethernet to a ramdisk file
>system, run single-user, execute the rc shell, and run a few simple
>utilities like ls.
>
>The extended binutils-2.5.2 included with this release implements
>ELF on this platform.  Patches to gcc-2.7.0 adequate to cross-compile
>this release of Linux/PowerPC are forthcoming and will be announced
>when they can be ftp'd.
>
>The Motorola 1603 board is the only platform currently supported.  Work
>continues on Apple NuBus PowerMacs, Motorola Ultra and PowerStack and
>IBM RS6000 PowerPC platforms.  Others are welcome.  Contributions to
>Linux/PowerPC can be made via the linux-ppc@vger.rutgers.edu mailing
>list or by anonymous ftp to
>
>    ftp://liber.stanford.edu/pub/incoming
>
>I am not the developer of this software, nor its archivist (source
>supervision is still in debate), but I will attempt to respond to email
>as time permits.  Linus Torvalds will get first priority for his
>suggestions, naturally.
>
>Many thanks are due to the people who have put code, time,
>documentation, effort, hardware and inspiration into Linux, the tools
>and this port.
>
>-Joseph
>--
>brothers@halcyon.com           Coordinator         Linux/PowerPC Project
>

        Take care,

The bearded Tubist, son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig.
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