> Wouldn't they potentially sell less macs if they helped with a 68k 
> version of a unix?  As it stands, or will stand, people can upgrade to a 
> power mac, and they will not only have the macos, but can run liunux.  If 
> they helped the 68k port, then people would have unix on their older 
> macs, and that would not speed their purchase of a power mac.

Your point is probably correct. Plus the fact, as someone else mentioned,
Apple probably doesn't have good showable-to-others docs for the 68k
macs.

Also, Apple is not helping get Linux ported to the PowerPC. They are helping
the Mach microkernel get ported to the PowerMac, and they are helping
Linux get ported to the microkernel.

The difference, besides semantics, is that I have heard that someone has
already ported NetBSD to the microkernel, so once the microkernel gets
released, we should be able to have NetBSD running on a PowerMac quickly.

Take care,

Bill