From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 9:20:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monmouth.com (mail.monmouth.com [209.191.58.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 325AA37B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:20:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com (bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com [209.191.59.182]) by mail.monmouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29535 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:20:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id e9PGRhX06054 for sparc@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:27:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit In-Reply-To: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Oct 25, 2000 08:34:16 am" To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:27:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 732-935-0629 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: > > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to > > the multiplatform area. > > Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > Not to disagree, but the Alpha is it at this time. Period. Anyone have FreeBSD running on an IA-64 at this time in real production? Does intel use it in production yet? Bet they're not yet. Hell, the chip's not even available to us everyday folks. as far as PowerPC -- Anyone have it running on a PowerPC box at this time in production? IBM had Solaris available on PowerPC and NT for a real short time around 94... Guess how many people bet on that combo. I had a lot of PowerPC boxes here running AIX... (some with MacOS and AIX on an IBM MicroChannel 7012 box). Right now it's Solaris, WinNT/9x, Mandrake Linux, and my last FreeBSD box... (running 4.0-Stable and my home grown backup program migrating to Solaris 8 and Veritas NetBackup). Bill -- bpechter@monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10 | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2 | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message