SqueakOS
Fred Bacon
bacon at mediaone.net
Sat Dec 26 22:28:37 UTC 1998
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote:
>
> Yes, the MkLinux people are familiar with the difference between
> OpenBoot G3 Macs and those that aren't. (Almost?) all Macs coming off
> the line right now are OpenBoot... and boots into a "forth-like" mode
> (my Forth buddies tell me it is a real total Forth). My Wall-street
> G3 Powerbook certainly is. (MkLinux people know it because MkLinux
> works ONLY with OpenBoot Macs.)
>
No, but close. :-) Linuxppc only boots on OpenFirmware based machines.
MkLinux will boot on machines which don't possess OF. (Older, NuBus
based powermacs.)
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