Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:58:48 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Processor preferences (was: talk (fwd)) Message-ID: <19980520195848.I22221@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3562A574.CE34E6EA@tdx.co.uk>; from Karl Pielorz on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 10:42:12AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980520095640.2602A-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> <3562A574.CE34E6EA@tdx.co.uk>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998 at 10:42:12 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Is it me or is basically everyone here either a) Not a big fan of Intel > (strange considering what FreeBSD runs on ;-) > > b) Prefers the Motorola? (I certainly do!), and / or c) Largely used to own, > program, hack on Amiga's? - or at least want FreeBSD to work as well as the > Amiga did <g> > > All way off topic but interesting following - maybe we should start > 'nostalgia-freebsd' mailing list? <G> I'm not really pro this or contra that. The M68K series was a very good design when it came out, and the 8086 was pretty rough by comparison, but nowadays the register model isn't very important to anybody except compiler writers. For whatever reasons, Intel has made the grade, whereas Motorola hasn't. I have more interesting things to worry about. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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