From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 16 20: 6: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 16 20:06:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9219E37B400 for ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:06:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001217040559.XSAQ17385.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@home.com>; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 20:05:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3A3C3B9A.4010700@home.com> Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:05:46 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test11 i586; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001214 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: intel vs. AMD References: <3A3C0A8A.D653C28@ifour.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: > I am seeking a new pc to buy, but have no ideia about the implication of > using AMD processors. I know FreeBSD were designed with intel processor > in mind. What about AMD ones? Is it rock solid performance over AMD? Is > AMD a good choice of processor? Is there any special consideration when > using AMD? No There are no special considerations, and the performance is great. > Just one more questions: Who's responsible for the AMD port (As far as i > known FreeBSD runs only with intel). Is there plans for a sparc port ? There is no AMD port. AMD processors are based on the Intel x86 architecture. Victor Cardona To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message