From owner-freebsd-sparc Sat Dec 12 18:54:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01062 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:54:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (dnai-207-181-249-194.dsl.dnai.com [207.181.249.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01038 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:54:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: from localhost (IDENT:root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hillbilly.hayseed.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA15301; Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:52:23 -0800 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:52:33 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: Christopher Nielsen To: Wes Peters cc: Greg Lehey , John Birrell , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... In-Reply-To: <366F5E30.2ED4962C@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Wes Peters wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > > One thing in particular occurred to me in this context: why does Sun > > want Linux or *BSD? On the whole, Solaris > this week> is a pretty good operating system, and neither Linux nor > > *BSD can equal it. What advantage would I have running FreeBSD on my > > UltraSparc? Or should we be doing what NetBSD and OpenBSD are already > > doing and running it on older (32 bit) Sparc hardware? > > That depends on which Sun you're talking about. From the standpoint > of Sun Microelectronics, the branch of Sun that sells hardware to OEMs, > they would garner a royalty-free operating system that can be embeded > into systems with no licensing fees. This would be a good incentive > for some markets they play in, most certainly telecommunications (i.e. > phone switches). Sun recently had a reorg. There are no longer individual operating companies with a parent holding company. Sun is one big company again. I believe this may have been a contributing factor to the death of the initial UltraSPARC porting effort. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message