[wplug] I can get a Mac Quadra 605

Jonathan Billings billings at negate.org
Wed Apr 28 12:29:49 EDT 2010


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:10:16AM -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote:
>
> I think I have a copy of Yellow Dog that would run on a 605 (it's
> running on a couple of 8300s). BTW if you haven't fired it up for a
> while, you might want to grab a new battery for the motherboard --
> Batteries Plus are about 1/2 the price of Radio Shack. 

The 8300 is a PowerPC (604 I believe) while the Quadra 605 runs a
MC68040 (or MC68LC040) processor -- you might remember when Apple made
the big switch from Motorola 68000 CPUs to PowerPC.

It's a different chip and I don't think Yellow Dog has m68k images.
You might be able to use Debian's m68k port:

http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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