[wplug] I can get a Mac Quadra 605

[Keith Wolters]

Or check this out.

http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> wrote:
> 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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