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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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