From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 25 20:24:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (lsmls02.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA11615832; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gummibear@we.mediaone.net) Received: from winbox (we-24-130-60-147.we.mediaone.net [24.130.60.147]) by lsmls02.we.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA29524; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990825202015.00799af0@we.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gummibear@we.mediaone.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 20:20:15 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org From: Joey Garcia Subject: FreeBSD and PowerPC (The IBM Motherboard Thing) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hey all! I was wondering what stance FreeBSD will have when IBM publishes it's open motherboard specification for PowerPC based motherboards. Will the FreeBSD project embrace the PowerPC platform considering it will be open easily attainable? At work we have an AS/400 (nice database machine, although way overpriced) which uses the IBM PowerPC 64 bit chip. That machine cranks out alot of work using only one CPU -- it does everything from warehouse inventory control to supporting more than 50 users without breaking a sweat. I can only imagine the possibilies with FreeBSD ported to the PowerPC platform. Anyways, I was just curious to what plans are ahead for FreeBSD and the PowerPC. Joey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message