Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010240847110.29310-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <39F68D1C.45F9F336@softweyr.com>
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> You're free to work on whatever you want, but the general consensus for all > of us keepers of SPARC 1s, 2s, 5s, 10s, 20s, IPCs, and IPXs, was that it > would be hard enough to get a port going for modern 64-bit machines, let > alone doing it for ancient hardware, and NetBSD and OpenBSD support them > quite adequately already. FWIW, FreeBSD isn't really interested in "hobby" > ports anymore. Of course the biggest problem to me is the cost of Sparc Architecture... I can get Ultra 5 in the $900-$1000 range. Yet can go down to my local computer store a buy a decent PC for $400. Yes Sparc Hardware is good, and if I needed it, might be worth the money. But I've been building good quality servers for years and find it hard to justify the extra money for a Sparc machine when PC does just as well. :) On the other hand, I'd love to run FreeBSD on the four older sparc machines I have for a more unified environment on my network. :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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