Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 18:46:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM (Ron G. Minnich) Cc: dcarmich@mcs.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for the PowerMac? Message-ID: <199710131846.LAA16555@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.971013084545.18682D-100000@morse> from "Ron G. Minnich" at Oct 13, 97 08:48:21 am
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> Hmmm, we have netbsd/ppc, linux/ppc, and I assume openbsd/ppp. What > does freebsd add? A unified VM with page coloring. Working install tools. Productization that the other camps ignore for lack of man-power. > esp. when the last power-pc-based computers have been designed? Your opinion. I don't think IBM can dump it's server line that quickly, and Motorola is still building PowerStack systems, FirePower is still building their boxes, etc.. > ( the next generation of ppc will be in your car's engine, not on > your desk. Thank You Know Who for that one). Thanks, Ford! > You're not losing much by optimizing for the pentium. At the rate > we're going, it's the only architecture out there (anyone see that > the Alpha is probably dead?) Do you think we would be working on such a vainglorious thing as a free UNIX clone if we were happy with "at the rate we're going"? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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