Re: tech snippets

Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 23:29:44 +0100 (MET)

On Fri, 20 Dec 1996 bill@iglobal.net wrote:
>
> Be has managed to put PowerPC's to good use with their BeBox
> machines and BeOs operating system. Check out http://www.be.com

I know about them, but two 603s is not exactly stellar, and there are no
scientific applications for the Be-beasties yet (but then, BeBox now runs
Linux). The hardware is not exactly cheap, either. Apropos Linux, an
experimental port of the L4 nanokernel (12 kBytes) with Linux personality
exists, check out

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/LinuxOnL4/LiOnL4.html

and

ftp://ftp.inf-tu-dresden.de/pub/os/L4/devel/l4-<date>.tar.gz

ciao,
'gene