Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current? Message-ID: <20020707064509.9B9ED3808@overcee.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207061647120.85464-100000@beppo>
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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.
You are misinterpreting my statements. I said:
NetBSD will run a lot more happily on such older hardware
and
5.x is being developed on bigger/faster boxes
Both are true. Note, I didn't say "faster than NetBSD". I was talking
about the fact that FreeBSD is being developed on faster rather than slower
machines. A few folks have old/antique systems around (myself included)
and check that things still work. But that is far from using them on a
daily basis to squeeze every last erg out of them.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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