Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com> To: Chuck Youse <cyouse@icon.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc board, and clones Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02.9811180928380.28299-100000@echonyc.com> In-Reply-To: <98111809130300.02392@windsock.flyboy.net>
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On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Chuck Youse wrote: > While support for sun4[mcd ] is a good thing, Kapil aptly pointed > out that they really are a different architecture than the sun4u. > To support both with one kernel is possible, but cumbersome at best. > Better to separate the two. It's not like users of older Suns would be out in the cold -- they can run NetBSD, and I think Linux or OpenBSD as well. It's also not as if coders for this project are coming out of the woodwork. IMHO, it's better to address a smaller problem domain and succeed than to be over-ambitious and fail. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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