Power PC????

From: George Currie <g_at_kurico.com>
Date: Mon May 10 21:08:25 1999

> >At 02:54 PM 5/10/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >>> Is anyone out there familar with the Motorola Power PCs? I spotted
> >>> several today. A StarMax 4000/180, several that booted a said Power PC
> >>> 604 and a Data Server 4000. Can anyone tell me more about these and
> >>> what kind OS they run?
> >>
> >>This was one of their Macintosh clones, it would be a decent enough
> >>system, and is upgradable to a G3 processor. Not sure how well
> >>current/future versions of MacOS will support it.
> >
> > Hmmm. I don't think it's a Mac clone. The two that are working are
> >running Windows NT. Version 3.51 I believe. BTW how the hell do you
> >find out anything about the system such as the hard drive size using
> >NT??? FWIW they have 32 Mb of RAM and are using a SCSI-II bus.
>
> HUH? Wow, they're a bit of an oddity then. I know the StarMax 4000/160
> and 4000/200's are listed as being MacOS clones. I suppose it's possible
> they'll run either, but it is more likely it's at least a change out of
> the ROM's. I've never even seen a PPC running NT (did know there was a
> port, but wasn't support dropped after 3.51?).

Yes NT4.0 does support the PPC. Can't remember if NT5 is
supposed to. I vaguely remember that it was, but my memories
been slipping lately ...

I have a Motorola PPC (604/100) machine designed specifically to
run NT, it's a CHRP/PREP/WATEVR machine that was supposed
to, eventually, be able to run either NT or MacOS. It's in quite a
sad state right now (I'm not even sure exactly where it is right now).

I also have another PPC machine (again 604/100) made by a
company called FirePower that was formed by a bunch of old NeXT
guys (the ones that were working on the multiprocessor 88100
NeXT box :( ) and eventually bought by Motorola. I currently have it
running NT4.0 and SQLServer 6.5, both native. Cool little box,
uses OpenFirmware (as does the other Mot).

Perhaps the DataServer machine is such a CHRP/PREP beastie?

You can run the disk administrator application (in the administrative
tools folder) to find out about the drives.

George
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 21:08:25 BST