From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 20 19:50:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C8437B42C; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-71-105.dialup.hiwaay.net [216.180.71.105]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7L2ohW00244; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:50:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA22466; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:23:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200008210223.VAA22466@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: Message from Kris Kennaway of "Sun, 20 Aug 2000 00:04:28 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:23:06 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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