In article <199411110609.AAA00777@punk.slip.ksu.edu>,
Rob Windsor  <windsor@ksu.ksu.edu> wrote:
> > 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!"

But they're not warehoused, they're shipping today.

> 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).

AIX, or maybe an NT beta.

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

Ditto!

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