Sincere Apologies for not keeping the topic to 100% NetBSD, but the
following info is somewhat related...

Verily did Ron Minnich write:
>> I was thinking of the PowerMac machines.  I haven't even *seen* a PREP
>> box.  Are they actually being produced?
 
> geez, i thought they were built and sitting in a warehouse cause ibm 
> couldn't figure out what they were for. Dvorak had a funny comment, to 
> the effect: "  ... Rather than waiting for microsoft to port NT why doesn't 
> ibm just sell them to people and let them come up with something?  NAH!"
 
> I gave up on powermac. Apple ::= closed.
 
I have heard throught the rumor mill that you can (-today-) purchase
PPC PCI-bus motherboards from Motorola.  What OS you are going to run
on it is still in the air considering IBM is still deep in beta for
WPOS (OS/2 for PPC).

I will jump for joy when NetBSD is ported to PPC.

-- Rob
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