Subject: Re: Supported models - anyone try the "New" iMac yet?
To: Ken Key <key@Network-Alchemy.COM>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/20/1999 16:50:29
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Ken Key wrote:

> Has anyone successfully booted on one of the "New" iMac's (oct. 1999) 
> - the 350MHz/400MHz models that just came out?  Peeking over at 
> linuxPPC's FAQ, they say it, too, has a new chipset (I'm new to Mac PPC

If it's a different chip set, then we don't support it.

> I'd prefer to spend the extra $100 for the new 350MHz if it can run 
> NetBSD today (not future) as I'd like to play with an Airport at some 
> point in the future.  However, whatever I get has got to boot/run NetBSD 
> right now (the current "old" 333MHz iMacs do, don't they?)

Today, the new chip sets don't run. While I want to get docs to support
them, I don't have time at the moment to do the support. No one else is in
a position to do it either. While we want to, it's not there "today." :-(

Sorry.

Take care,

Bill