From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 15 15:31:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27359 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27349 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA01224 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:30:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:30:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199807152230.PAA01224@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Embedded systems In-Reply-To: <199807152132.OAA20814@usr08.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I changed the subject, since this thread hasn't had a whole lot to do with that comment in a long time.... dhw] >From: Terry Lambert >Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 21:32:37 +0000 (GMT) >For an embedded system, non-Intel hardware is almost invariably >cheaper.... When I was working for a (very) small company that provided fairly inexpensive ports (& a years' worth of support) of gcc (& friends), primarily for embedded systems developers, the most common configuration requested was for generating 68k code while running on PC-DOS. There was a smattering of other targets MIPS 4k; i860; a few others. But 68k target on PC-DOS was easily 10x the quantity of the next-most- requested flavor. Many of the requestors were folks building things in their garages; costs were non-trivial concerns. That was, however, about 4 years ago.... david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message