[colug-432] PowerPC hardware recommendations

[Stephen Potter]

PowerPC was derived from earlier IBM POWER architecture and over time 
the PowerPC development has been folded back into the POWER ISA.  You 
could find a reasonably low cost new or used IBM Power system and be 
very highly compatible.

-spp

On 9/16/2015 2:27 PM, Rick Troth wrote:
> I have an iMac that I got from a friend.
> Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.
>
> Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux
> stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe
> do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned
> machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)
>
> Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed
> for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to
> be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- R; <><
>
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