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Date:      Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:50:04 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?
Message-ID:  <20001208115004.B81619@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012080707.AAA12102@freeway.dcfinc.com>; from chad@DCFinc.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:07:49AM -0700
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012021342100.5019-100000@zeppo.feral.com> <200012080707.AAA12102@freeway.dcfinc.com>

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On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 12:07:49AM -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote:
> I thought the space staked out by the *BSD gang was approximately
> this:
>   NetBSD - the least amount of platform-specific code possible; run
>   on most anything
>   OpenBSD - pro-active security, bullet-proof from attacks
>   FreeBSD - best performing on the Intel PC platform

s/the Intel PC/server/  The Alpha has very good I/O bandwidth and 64-bit
address space.  Thus it fits our niche.  You also mentioned Sparc, but
really should have said sparc64(pci based).

hopefully embeded soon too.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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