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Build Your Own PowerPC?
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."
That's the place next to Muddy May Suggin's Gator Farm, isn't it?
Finally, math books without any of that base 6 crap in them.
It must be funny in that, "funny, stupid" way, since it's not funny in that, "funny, ha ha clever" way.
There's no functional reason that the submitter couldn't build a PPC box, he asked a valid question. If he had asked how to build a PPC system using an old 486 motherboard, a PPC chip, three tic-tacs and a tube of k-y jelly, then maybe you'd have something funny.
You mean I didn't build my own PC because I purchased rather than fabricated my motherboard? That is utter crap.
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.