Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:02:54 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (Hr.Ladavac) Cc: rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Message-ID: <199611202102.WAA06845@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199611201554.AA097975282@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> from "Hr.Ladavac" at Nov 20, 96 04:54:23 pm
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> E-mail message from Richard Heller contained: > > > > I was wondering if FreeBSD has support for transputers or not. If the question is simply "is there a device driver for Transputer boards" the answer is YES, part of the standard distribution since 2.0 (atcually I wrote it for 1.1.5) If the question is 'does FreeBSD run on transputers' then you are completely right. > No. Nor would I invest any time in providing one. > > The better question is: are there any transputers to be found on the > market at all? > The other is: are they worth the porting effort? > The third: do they have any form of memory management? > > To the best of my knowledge, the answer to all three is 'No'. You might as > well ask for a port to Intel 80286 (with the exception that '286 can be > bought in any quantities, new, rather cheap, if you know where to ask.) really ? I thought the bottom of the line for Intel was the 186 and the 386-for-embedded-systems Luigi
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