Subject: RE: power mac
To: 'Erik E. Fair' <fair@clock.org>
From: Bill Rees <bill_rees@firepower.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 06/18/1997 11:34:13
I seriously doubt that their OpenFirmware soluution is significantly
more to spec than any of their other machines.  AIX requires something
called a residual data set which may or may not be hard coded for the
NetServer machines.

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>From: 	Jason Thorpe[SMTP:thorpej@nas.nasa.gov]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, June 18, 1997 10:49 AM
>To: 	Erik E. Fair
>Cc: 	port-powerpc@NetBSD.ORG
>Subject: 	Re: power mac 
>
>On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 01:38:46 -0700 
> "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) <fair@clock.org> wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine who is possibly in a position to know suggests that since
> > the Apple Network Server 500 & 700 run AIX that they probably have full
> > OpenBoot PROM support in them. Anyone here had the chance to try
> > NetBSD/PowerPC on one of those beasts?
>
>I haven't, no.
>
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