Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 08:01:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sparc Port Message-ID: <200006031201.IAA00511@bg-tc-ppp418.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <bulk.61047.20000602232838@hub.freebsd.org> from freebsd-sparc-digest at "Jun 2, 2000 11:28:39 pm"
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> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 06:03:47 -0700 > From: Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> > Subject: Re: BSD/OS source code (4.1 and SMP experimental) now available. > > Just as a reminder to everyone, we do have a (completely dormant :-) ) > freebsd-sparc mailing list that I invite everyone and anyone interested > in sparc to join. > > Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > In <3934.958710076@localhost>, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > o SPARC port > > > Already working on this: [nobody] > > > > What's the public opinion on the sparc64 vs. older issue? Is that > > meant to be be for sun4u (and upwards) machines only? Is there still > > a point to target to pre-ultra machines? > I'd like to see the port include the now orphaned Sun4c and the Sun4m machines -- since they're already supported in NetBSD and OpenBSD as well as Linux. There's a lot of companies unloading them cheaply and they make fine samba servers and DNS boxes and FreeBSD on them would be an improvement. I don't see a lot of home and small FreeBSD sites with a pile of Sun Ultras as target boxes -- but Sparc2/10/20's are getting as common at fleamarkets as 486s and P100s. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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