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Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:28:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
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Subject: Re: Linux and RS/6000 250
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Hi Sven,

> I've uh "inherited" an elderly RS/6000 250 and wanted to install linux
> on it. Googleing for this machine and linux turns up information that it
> is not possible. Yet, this information is a tad older (one to two years
> old), so I wondered if anything changed in that regard -
> apparently PPC in combination with the MCA bus were not supported.

I own a couple of them and currently run AIX 4.3.3 on all of them.
However, i heared, that the support from IBM is to be discontinued next
year and i would ^love^to run Linux on them if at all possible :-)


Cheers,
--jochen

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