From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 14 18:59:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA29310 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (root@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA29302 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 18:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i4got.lakewood.com (fh-ppp4.monmouth.com [205.164.221.36]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA27945; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:57:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by i4got.lakewood.com id VAA01767 (8.8.5/IDA-1.6); Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:59:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter Message-ID: <199708150159.VAA01767@i4got.lakewood.com> Subject: Re: speed test In-Reply-To: <2890.871607713@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Aug 14, 97 06:15:13 pm" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 21:59:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-to: pechter@lakewood.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > > Jordan > Geez... should I quit doing AIX for a living? Actually, I think there's a bit longer life to go in the PowerPC than you do. Disclaimers: I work for IBM, I used to work for DEC and I own stock in both! I think the Alpha's a dynamite chip and I'd love to run FreeBSD and FreeVMS on it. (I'd settle for FreeBSD and OpenVMS if I could only afford the latter... -- what I'd love is FreeBSD, OpenVMS, Digital Unix and WinNT and all on the same hardware. Benchmarking bliss!) I wish DEC was more open on the stuff (the way they were in the PDP11 days...) I wish IBM would support a FreeBSD port -- since they killed OS/2 on the PowerPC and need a viable low end (I mean price -- not quality) OS on it. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.