Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 18:10:40 -0700 From: Pete Delaney <Pete.Delaney@rockymountain.rahul.net> To: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <199710160110.AA04546@RockyMountain.rahul.net>
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> [Redirected to FreeBSD-platforms; only *one* mailing list at a time, > if you please!] > > > a) If you feel freeBSD/PPC has nothing to offer, then why bother > > running FreeBSD on Intel-ish chips? There's a lot more > > I think you may have missed his point. He was simply trying to say > that there's no point in investing all the time, effort and > maintainance costs into going to another platform where we can't > really offer anything new. We have a lot to offer on the Intel > platform and *we're already there*, which counts for one heck of a lot > when you are the one who gets to do all the work. > > With the possible exception of certain strategic platforms like ALPHA, > I don't see the point in putting a lot of project resources into > non-x86 architectures. We simply have a lot of better things we could > be doing with those resources and ALPHA itself is strategic not even > so much for what they represent as a "market" as what they do as a > test bed, helping us to weed out the 64 bit issues in our code base > well before Intel finally forces us to go in that direction with > Merced or whatever it is that they eventually come up with. :) > > > c) I, for one, would be quite interested in FreeBSD/PPC (assuming > > someone else does most of the work... :-). > > But then that's the case for so many things, isn't it? :-) > > Jordan > OpenBSD and NetBSD are worth considering. -piet
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