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Date:      Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        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:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207061647120.85464-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20020706194910.C4CDF3808@overcee.wemm.org>

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> 
> 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.


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