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Date:      Sat, 06 Jul 2002 22:39:16 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current?
Message-ID:  <3D27D404.F66C3A8@mindspring.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207061647120.85464-100000@beppo>

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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > Putting emotion aside for a moment,  NetBSD seem to get a lot more joy out
> > of keeping aging hardware up and running than we do.  I would wager that
> > come 5.0-R, NetBSD will run a lot more happily on such older hardware than
> > FreeBSD will since 5.x is being developed on bigger/faster boxes.
> 
> Don't count on that last statement being true. NetBSD is being developed for a
> much broader range of boxes than FreeBSD. This includes aging sun2s and VAXes
> through ia64 and Dreamcast and SH3 systems.

And AMD Hammer, which might actually be purchasable in stores
some time around 2010.

-- Terry

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