On Sun, 14 Jul 1996 17:58:14 -0500 (CDT) 
 "The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood]" <davagatw@mars.utm.edu> wrote:

 > Hmmm, well, different market, really.  NetBSD will probably never run
 > separately on PowerMacs.  However, I had heard something _waaaaay_ back
 > about possible NetBSD on top of the OSF Mach Microkernel, instead of the
 > Linux server.  That would greatly reduce the likelihood of NetBSD ever
 > running on PowerMacs directly.

Don't be so sure.  Firstly, NetBSD would probably be much easier to port 
to the hardware than to the microkernel.

It's reasonable to assume that once a port to any type of PowerPC system 
existed, that a port to the PowerMac would be a SMOP, especially if a 
reference PowerPC port were written for the "right kind" of PowerPC 
platform.

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