Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 22:32:02 -0400 From: Leonard Sitongia <sitongia@uswest.net> To: freebsd-platforms@freebsd.org Subject: PowerPC Platforms Message-ID: <37CC9022.B3775831@uswest.net>
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I'm interested in FreeBSD on PowerPC, especially on Apple. Is anyone working on this? I know about NetBSD's work. I'm interested in FreeBSD. FreeBSD is going on Alpha. How about PowerPC? The PowerPC chip line is hot. Take a look at the new G4 from Apple (www.apple.com), with reportedly 1GFLOP sustained, vector processing (SIMD) instructions, etc. It looks like a really nice processor to me. I've run Linux on Apple PowerPC for some time, but I always longingly return to my interest in BSD, for reasons on my own experience (starting with 4.2BSD on VAX). Sure, we all know the story about how USL encumbered the freedom of BSD, launching Linux on it's way. Waxing even more generally here, into advocacy, I wonder how BSD should/can/will distinguish itself from Linux (I think it should)? I think the areas of interest are: SMP, cluster computing, high-performance computing. Embedded processors is another interesting area, worthy of work. So how about work on Apple PowerPC and the G4? Thanks for your time, -- --- Leonard Sitongia sitongia@uswest.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-platforms" in the body of the messagehome | help
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