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Build Your Own PowerPC?

Posted by Cliff on from the why-not? dept.

amokk asks: "Let's assume for a second that somebody would want to take the time and effort to build a Personal Computer but base it on a PowerPC architecture. Besides saying 'Buy a Mac' (I already have one) or 'Buy an IBM server', is there any way of acquirng the individual parts and slapping them together? Why you would want to do this isn't up for debate. Rather, this is one of those 'wouldn't it be neat if...' type of experiments."

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  1. Re:Shreve Systems by unicron · · Score: 2, Troll

    That's the place next to Muddy May Suggin's Gator Farm, isn't it?

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    Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
  2. Re:The other part of the question... by Karrots · · Score: 0, Troll

    I seem to remember with the first iMacs and the G3 towers OpenFirmware loaded a ROM image file from the harddisk it was in the system folder. Is that still how MacOS X works. I don't have much experience in it.