> From: Geert Uytterhoeven [mailto:geert@linux-m68k.org] > > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Leandro Dutra wrote: > > > From: Mike Fedyk [mailto:mfedyk@matchmail.com] > > > > > > "Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)" > > > > > > > It was the set of standards created for Power PC computers that > > would be made by various manufacturers and run OS/2, Mac OS and AIX. > > And Solaris... Yes, and perhaps NT too - the PowerPC version of NT was ARC (Advanced RISC Computer) compatible, perhaps it would need another HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer, a fancy name for a port and relevant drivers). In fact the AIM (Apple, IBM, Motorola) intended that PowerPC and CHRP would replace the "IBM-PC compatible" i386 platform, but enabling far more powerful OS's than Windows. > IBM didn't want to produce the boards themselves. They just > provided a reference > implementation. It's (a.o.?) Tatung and Umax that are to > blame, for not wanting > to produce those boards (they didn't believe in Linux) after > Steve Jobs killed > Mac OS for CHRP... At the time GNU/Linux wasn't really on the radar. Up to this very day it wouldn't be feasible to produce a totally new platform alternative to i386 just on the grounds of "Linux runs it". If there was also other popular OS's perhaps, but just GNU/Linux not yet. IBM itself was to blame, because it killed OS/2 PowerPC and never bothered to try to mass-market AIX as Sun tried (to no avail) with the entry-level SPARC workstations, or Microsoft almost succeeded with Xenix. --_ / \ Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra +55 (11) 246 96 07 resl \ / Amdocs Brasil Ltda, Sao Paulo +55 (11) 3040 8913 coml X http://terravista.pt./Enseada/1989/ ; mailto:leandrod@amdocs.com / \ Campanha fita ASCII, contra correio HTML BRASIL
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