From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jul 6 23:45:11 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 9AF9D37B400; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F29C43E09; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3022A7F2; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80DB4C4E1; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9ED3808; Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Wilko Bulte , "David O'Brien" , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: removing Turbochannel support for 5.0-current? In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2002 23:45:09 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020707064509.9B9ED3808@overcee.wemm.org> 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message