From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 24 17:11:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C244716A400 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@johnea.net) Received: from mail.johnea.net (johnea.net [70.167.123.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE8E313C46E for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 17:11:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from me@johnea.net) Received: from [192.168.100.211] (unknown [192.168.100.211]) by mail.johnea.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B91D7B1 for ; Thu, 24 May 2007 09:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4655C238.7000809@johnea.net> Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:50:00 -0700 From: johnea User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051002) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: i386? X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 17:11:08 -0000 Hi, Don't know if this will make it through your spam filter, or if you'll have the bandwidth to respond, but here goes. Why doesn't the FreeBSD project support a 32bit intel architecture newer than 386? Pretty much every PC in operation today is at least 686/athalon. Wouldn't the architechtural improvements to the x86 architecture over the last 10 years provide performance improvements to FreeBDSD? Just wondering, couldn't really find a forum to post such a question to. Thank you for reading my email! And thank you for your hard work on the FreeBSD project! And if you have just a minute to craft an answer, Thank you for your reply! ciao... johnea