Re: FAQ: PREP / CHRP / ofppc / macppc confusion.

[Jochen Kunz <jkunz%unixag-kl.fh-kl.de@localhost>]

On 2002.08.05 21:21 PeterH5322%aol.com@localhost wrote:

> <<
> AFAIK "new" PPC Macs are CHRP and use OpenFirmware as well as "new"
> IBM RS/6000 machines.
> >>
> I'm confused (probably very!).
I am too. ;-(

> I thought the CHRP machines were pre-"New World", in Mac-speak,
> meaning Beige G3s, and that with the B&W G3s, Apple had abandoned
> the CHRP.
I don't know. I must admit that I didn't care much about Macs in my
research. I thought that there are only the "old" NuBus PPC Macs and
"new" PCI PPC Macs that are all CHRP. So it seams that there are the
NuBus, the CHRP, and the very new non-CHRP machines. Just more confusion
in my head. 
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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