Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:23:06 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <200008210223.VAA22466@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> of "Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:04:28 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008200003490.97929-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Kris Kennaway writes: > 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! :-) Saw an Apple //e today at a hamfest. Beleive the seller had to take it home with no takers at $35 for the Monitor ][ and 2 floppies. There was also a table with a //gs for about the same price. I think it would be easier to port to the //gs as its memory model is better. But if I remember right my //gs's 20MB HD thruput was only 20k/sec. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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