<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><dt style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This might help. : )</span></dt><dt style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></dt><dt style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tyan</span></dt><dd style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; list-style: square inside;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX" title="ATX" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;">ATX motherboard</a> with one single-chip POWER8 socket called the SP010GM2NR</span></li></ul><div><a href="http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/">http://www.tyan.com/campaign/openpower/</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8</a></div><div><br></div><div>Don</div></dd><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 16, 2015, at 3:30 PM, Stephen Potter <<a href="mailto:spp@unixsa.net">spp@unixsa.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>PowerPC was derived from earlier IBM POWER architecture and over time </span><br><span>the PowerPC development has been folded back into the POWER ISA. You </span><br><span>could find a reasonably low cost new or used IBM Power system and be </span><br><span>very highly compatible.</span><br><span></span><br><span>-spp</span><br><span></span><br><span>On 9/16/2015 2:27 PM, Rick Troth wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>I have an iMac that I got from a friend.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-- R; <><</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>