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Date:      Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:10:46 +0000
From:      Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>, Roger Davidson <rd787@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: processor compatability
Message-ID:  <20020118101046.GA4126@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org> <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:41:44AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000, Simon Dick wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote:
> > >=20
> > >    Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/A=
MD,
> > >    vice-versa, or no real difference?
> >=20
> > FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be
> > no.
>=20
> Well, it's not only x86 thesedays; alpha has been working well for
> several years, IA64 and Sparc64 ports are running multiuser, and
> there's a PPC port which is in its initial stages.
>=20
> For running BSD on PPC today, though, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are
> your only choices.

I know it's not, but there is no currently working port for the platforms
he asked for (ie I knew there was none that he'd be able to use and I
just phrased it wrongly :)

--=20
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org
"Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?"

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