From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 6 17: 9: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22FF614CB2 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gryph@mindless.com) Received: from mindless.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA12496; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 17:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37FBE46A.F0D3147B@mindless.com> Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 17:08:10 -0700 From: "D.M.P." Organization: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > > On 06-Oct-99 D.M.P. wrote: > > Don't count 68k's out just yet. There's quite a few Performa and > > Quadra systems still in use as firewall boxes or low-traffic mail > > servers. Just as one would use a 486 for the same jobs with FreeBSD. > > True, however, the difference can be spelled out in three letters - PCI. Three little letters that aren't needed when you're talking about gatewaying a dialup or ISDN connection. Even my DSL line here at home runs full-speed through a 3c509 on a 486DX33. -- "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message