RE: power mac

[Bill Rees <bill_rees%firepower.com@localhost>]

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@localhost]
>Sent:  Wednesday, June 18, 1997 10:49 AM
>To:    Erik E. Fair
>Cc:    port-powerpc%NetBSD.ORG@localhost
>Subject:       Re: power mac 
>
>On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 01:38:46 -0700 
> "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) <fair%clock.org@localhost> 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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