From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 1:41:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-131.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AFF37B400 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 905F666BBF; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:41:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:41:44 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Simon Dick Cc: Roger Davidson , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor compatability Message-ID: <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NMuMz9nt05w80d4+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000, Simon Dick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote: > >=20 > > Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/AMD, > > vice-versa, or no real difference? >=20 > FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be > no. Well, it's not only x86 thesedays; alpha has been working well for several years, IA64 and Sparc64 ports are running multiuser, and there's a PPC port which is in its initial stages. For running BSD on PPC today, though, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are your only choices. Kris --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8R+3YWry0BWjoQKURAuLUAKCzdIIh7c1okblr4bVz2aUqJNxFowCffIIE mrtt2zFMzX7g/UdxjpTLK2E= =38NA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message