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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:41:44 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
Cc:        Roger Davidson <rd787@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: processor compatability
Message-ID:  <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM %2B0000
References:  <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000, Simon Dick wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote:
> >=20
> >    Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/AMD,
> >    vice-versa, or no real difference?
>=20
> FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be
> no.

Well, it's not only x86 thesedays; alpha has been working well for
several years, IA64 and Sparc64 ports are running multiuser, and
there's a PPC port which is in its initial stages.

For running BSD on PPC today, though, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are
your only choices.

Kris

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