Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

At 12:16 AM 4/24/2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 19 April 2002 at 11:22:12 -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > Is there any chance of getting some activity going here?  I have a few
> > machines that I need to make work and AIX is not doing it for us.  I 
> see that
> > Greg Lehey <grog%au1.ibm.com@localhost> from IBM has already offered help and 
> I can
> > offer a test machine, some help porting and testing and perhaps even some
> > cold hard cash if that can help.
>
> *sigh*  There doesn't seem to be much activity, does there?
>
> My offer stands.  If anybody needs information, I'll do what I can to
> get it.  I also have a machine here, but I can't guarantee that I can
> make it available to non-IBMers.

I've tried to buy Power3 or Power4 based machines off Ebay but the prices
have always been higher than I want to spend on a hobbyist machine.  It'd
be nice to do powerpc64 support.  I think the prep support is getting
better.  But we still don't anything on the OpenFirmware based machines.
And getting one of those is difficult or expensive.


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