From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 1: 3:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nelly.internal.irrelevant.org (irrelevant.demon.co.uk [158.152.220.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706CD37B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from simond by nelly.internal.irrelevant.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16RUvN-0000zz-00; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:03:01 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 09:03:01 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: Roger Davidson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor compatability Message-ID: <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org> References: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote: > > Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/AMD, > vice-versa, or no real difference? FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be no. I believe NetBSD or OpenBSD can run on PPC or 68k though. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message