From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 6 16:49:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBB437B405; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:49:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1423143E42; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:49:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from mailhost.feral.com (mjacob@mailhost.feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g66NmMO85484; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:48:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@beppo Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Peter Wemm Cc: Wilko Bulte , "David O'Brien" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current? In-Reply-To: <20020706194910.C4CDF3808@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Putting emotion aside for a moment, NetBSD seem to get a lot more joy out > of keeping aging hardware up and running than we do. I would wager that > come 5.0-R, NetBSD will run a lot more happily on such older hardware than > FreeBSD will since 5.x is being developed on bigger/faster boxes. Don't count on that last statement being true. NetBSD is being developed for a much broader range of boxes than FreeBSD. This includes aging sun2s and VAXes through ia64 and Dreamcast and SH3 systems. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message