Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:10:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: "Robert S. Sciuk" <rob@ControlQ.com> Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Message-ID: <20001025131052.G62010@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251553130.59983-100000@schizo.controlq.com>; from rob@ControlQ.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:57:01PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010241102570.29564-100000@heorot.1nova.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010251553130.59983-100000@schizo.controlq.com>
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:57:01PM -0400, Robert S. Sciuk wrote: > I think we forget our roots. Older 32 Bit workstations are being given > away, and this is where BSD grew up and belongs. BSD belongs on old crappy 32-bit hardware?? Personally my BSD roots were on DEC machines. > Porting to ultrasparc makes less sense than legacy SPARC and HPPA for that > matter, since we can get our hands on those boxes for 0$ frequently. FreeBSD specializes in the server market. I really don't think one is going to run a high-thruput server on an IPX. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) T.B. PLEASE PEOPLE learn to use your mail client and NOT CC: this list _twice_ in your replies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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