Software needed

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Sat Nov 15 14:41:49 1997

Thanks for the input John
At 02:05 PM 11/15/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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"]
>
>
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