From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 10:24:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D2C37B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13920; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:24:28 -0700 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:24:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit In-Reply-To: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > IBM had Solaris available on PowerPC and NT for a real short time > around 94... Guess how many people bet on that combo. Uh, actually it was Sun who had Solaris going on PPC/Prep, and they had it on both AIX and Motorola/MAC h/w. It was never released, but I still have the Beta 2.5.1 CDs and boot floppies for it (from Legato- I even managed to build NetWorker for it at one point). We understood it to be Sun who pulled the plug. NetBSD runs fine on many MACs, including the multiprocessor G4. YellowDog Linux does an excellent job also on the G4s. Apple would love to see FreeBSD run on their new h/w considering their OS10 strategy. > 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 > -- > bpechter@monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10 > | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2 > | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message