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Subject: Re: speed test
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:07:44 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 07:07:29 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.dk.tfs.com>
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That should be moderately easy: Grab lites and get moving...
I somehow doubt that there are many Mac owners who are into UNIX ...
Poul-Henning
In message <33F373A0.E3209D0C@pacbell.net>, jack velte writes:
>Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>>
>> > > OK, so I had to go to an ALPHA to do it. ;-)
>> >
>> > which alpha?
>> >
>> > c'mon jordan, his is not alt.tasteless.freebsd.hackers :PPPPPPPPPPPP
>>
>> It's a DEC Durango motherboard with a 500Mhz 21164 CPU. I bought it
>> from Aspen systems (www.aspsys.com) and it's currently running
>> Netbsd-current as a reference platform for the FreeBSD/ALPHA effort
>> which is slowly getting under way now.
>
>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
>working as the kernel under the next version of MacOS (the Nextstep
>derivative), you'll have a huge built-in audience of every installed Mac
>user. Nextstep is finally a reason other than graphic arts to own a
>Mac. Port FreeBSD and give the Mac people a choice.
>
>-jack
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