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From: Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>
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Jordan K. Hubbard shared with us:
> > i urge a port to Macintosh Power PC.  the next generation rhapsody
> > kernel 3.0 is now based on the MKLinux kernel.  if you can get freebsd
> 
> The PowerPC architecture is dead dead dead.  It just doesn't know it
> yet.

Actually, there are two business where the Macintosh is the leading
platform: graphics and music (MIDI sequencing, harddisk recording
and sound processing). Both are gradually moving over to Windows
NT (on an Intel archtecture). At this moment, it's 'gradually'. In
some time, it will be 'rapidly'.

HP stopped building it's own processors, next is either Motorola
or SGI (MIPS). Alpha seems like the most safe bet at the moment,
because they're way faster than Intel at the time.

Apart from that, Alpha is the only platform that really aims at
server applications, just like FreeBSD does. MIPS and PPC are used
in the graphics industry, all with it's specialized applications
that are not very likely to be ported to FreeBSD (at least, not in
the near future).

- Peter