Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:27:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.dyndns.org> To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Oct 25, 2000 08:34:16 am"
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> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to
> > the multiplatform area.
>
> Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC?
>
> --
> -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
>
Not to disagree, but the Alpha is it at this time. Period.
Anyone have FreeBSD running on an IA-64 at this time in real production?
Does intel use it in production yet? Bet they're not yet.
Hell, the chip's not even available to us everyday folks.
as far as PowerPC --
Anyone have it running on a PowerPC box at this time in production?
IBM had Solaris available on PowerPC and NT for a real short time
around 94... Guess how many people bet on that combo.
I had a lot of PowerPC boxes here running AIX... (some with MacOS and
AIX on an IBM MicroChannel 7012 box). Right now it's Solaris, WinNT/9x,
Mandrake Linux, and my last FreeBSD box... (running 4.0-Stable and
my home grown backup program migrating to Solaris 8 and Veritas NetBackup).
Bill
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