On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:03:03PM +1100, C Harland wrote: > PowerPc commonly known as a Mac. It's linux for apples Macs.
Sorry to be pedantic, but that's not entirely true. It is for the later Macs, yes. The earlier, pre "PowerMac" era was driven by a Motorola chip. (which, btw, linux has been ported to - the arch string is "m68k") These chips are not exclusive to Macs. The Amiga uses m68k chips. The PowerPC is also used by some later Amigas (APUS), and some Mac clones (Umax, PowerTower, etc) In fact, interestingly, the PowerPC chip was developed in partnership by Motorola and IBM. Big Blue has its fingers in a lot of pies. Either way, a bit of googling will tell you what Macs are m68k, and which are PowerPCs. Mike. -- Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
