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Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 22:39:16 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current?
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Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > 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.

And AMD Hammer, which might actually be purchasable in stores
some time around 2010.

-- Terry

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