From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 9:29:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADE137B479 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9025B3294; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725CB3293; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:53:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? In-Reply-To: <39F68D1C.45F9F336@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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