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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > > OK, so I had to go to an ALPHA to do it. ;-)
> >
> > which alpha?
> >
> > c'mon jordan, his is not alt.tasteless.freebsd.hackers :PPPPPPPPPPPP
> 
> It's a DEC Durango motherboard with a 500Mhz 21164 CPU.  I bought it
> from Aspen systems (www.aspsys.com) and it's currently running
> Netbsd-current as a reference platform for the FreeBSD/ALPHA effort
> which is slowly getting under way now.

i urge a port to Macintosh Power PC.  the next generation rhapsody
kernel 3.0 is now based on the MKLinux kernel.  if you can get freebsd
working as the kernel under the next version of MacOS (the Nextstep
derivative), you'll have a huge built-in audience of every installed Mac
user.  Nextstep is finally a reason other than graphic arts to own a
Mac.  Port FreeBSD and give the Mac people a choice.

-jack