Re: Apple? (Was: Terry Lambert's blathering)

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 21:16

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In article <3viq39$luk@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>, greg@ohs.uwo.ca (Greg Chapman) writes:
>st@amber.epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) wrote:
>
>>If you could "write drivers directly down to the metal", why doesn't
>>MacLinux exist, and why does NetBSD/mac68k only support a few models of
>>Macintosh? Hmmm?
>
>Thats a dumb arguement - there's a port being done right now.

And the port would probably have been done a long time ago if Apple had
given them better hardware documentation.

Ravi

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Subject: Re: Apple? (Was: Terry Lambert's blathering)
Date: 31 Jul 1995 21:16:12 GMT
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