Subject: Re: NetBSD on RS/6000 computers
To: Andy R <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
From: Shawn Dunn <sfalkenx@hotmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/05/2002 08:02:01
----- > --- Andy R <quadreverb@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > The current RS/6000s are PCI bus, and haven't been
> MCA
> > for quite a while now.
> >
> > They have a Motorola PowerPC processor, nothing
> like
> > the old M68k.
>
> In other words, "native" support for the RS/6000 is
> a bit shaky, apart
> from the processors.. am I right?  Is there any
> alternative Sun or IBM
> processor based machines which can be recommended
> for running NetBSD.
>
> I was thinking about UltraSPARC III.. :)

>Yes, I should have mentioned that support is not 100%
>there for the R/S6000 yet.

>Get an Alpha if you want big power for low dollars.
>You can find them all over Ebay now


This is another alternative, and probably somewhat less attractive, but if
you want to run a *nix other than AIX on your RS/6000, yellowdog linux does,
or at least DID run on the RS/6000's.   http://www.yellowdoglinux.com

                    --Shawn