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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Next AMIGA-OS and Mac laptop PPC
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:59:58 GMT
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- References: <912.6587T190T1366@ci.educ.lu>
- Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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- In article <912.6587T190T1366@ci.educ.lu>, manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA) writes:
- >As nearly all other AMIGA user I do want a laptop AMIGA!
- >
- >So if Amiga Technologies does port the AMIGA-OS (AmigaOS 4.0?) to PPC
- >(PowerPC), does this mean it will run on any CHRP PPC machine?
- >If *YES* could one buy a MAC Powerbook and run AMIGA-OS 4.0? on it??
- >
- >So AT doesn't to develop a new AMIGA laptop computer!
- >
- >Any ideas?
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- *If* the laptop is CHRP compliant, it would work fine.
-
- However, I doubt the MAC Powerbook *is* CHRP compliant, as I think the
- CHRP spec calls for PCI slots, and I didn't think the MAC Powerbook had
- any... and there may be other differences as well to prevent this from
- working on present MAC Powerbooks.
-
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- Jim Cooper
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