From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 0: 4:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E9137B440; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA98200; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:04:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Marius Bendiksen Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > If FreeBSD migrates to additional architectures, how much of its > > `goodness' will translate directly to other platforms?? Moreover, how > > much future effort and talent will be diverted into porting efforts rather > > than single platform perfection?? One must always trade off optimal > > platform performance for the sake of portability! > > The issue here is also how many platforms, and what kind, you port to. > Porting to the UltraSPARC is different from trying to backport to a 6502 > with a ram extender. Hey, I'd love to run FreeBSD on my Apple IIe! :-) Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message