John R. Keys Jr. wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me if Linux will run on the IBM Powerstation 7012/300 and
> 7011/200, these are both rs6000 machines. I got them at auction and the
> aix/unix operating systems and everything else was removed from the
> harddrives. I'm looking for some low cost operating system software to run
> these machines with. Thanks in advance. John Keep on computing !!!
To the best of my knowledge, probably not now and likely not soon. As I
recall, those machines are old Power (or maybe Power2) architecture (Bill
Donzelli knows which models are which better than I do) and the closest
Linux porting project is for the PowerPC, which is less closely related
than the similar names might imply.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sat Nov 15 1997 - 13:05:02 GMT