From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 10 04:28:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA17537 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 04:28:20 -0700 Received: from zaphod (zaphod.ttu.ee [193.40.254.227]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA17528 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 04:27:33 -0700 Received: from juku.li.ttu.ee by zaphod (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA10490; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:27:44 +0300 Received: by juku.li.ttu.ee (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA11004; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:26:11 +0300 Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 14:26:11 +0300 From: tanel@juku.li.ttu.ee (Tanel Kuusk) Message-Id: <9505101126.AA11004@juku.li.ttu.ee> To: questions@FreeBSD.org, arquint@inf.ethz.ch Subject: Re: Ports of FreeBSD X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Or are there any other plans to support Pentium or even to port > to PowerPC? Sure FreeBSD will already run on a Pentium machine but > this CPU has some more feature than a 486 or even a 386 has, which > if supported by the OS directly may make a machine even more faster...;-) FreeBSD runs on Pentium machines. And work is in progress to support multiple-pentium machines. Don't know about PowerPC. I've heard also something about the MC680x0 and Sparc ports being developed. NetBSD runs on a variety of architectures. Tanel