From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 20 13:41:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12164 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 13:41:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA12153 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 13:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id WAA06845; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:02:54 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199611202102.WAA06845@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html To: lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (Hr.Ladavac) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 22:02:54 +0100 (MET) Cc: rheller@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611201554.AA097975282@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> from "Hr.Ladavac" at Nov 20, 96 04:54:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > E-mail message from Richard Heller contained: > > > > I was wondering if FreeBSD has support for transputers or not. If the question is simply "is there a device driver for Transputer boards" the answer is YES, part of the standard distribution since 2.0 (atcually I wrote it for 1.1.5) If the question is 'does FreeBSD run on transputers' then you are completely right. > No. Nor would I invest any time in providing one. > > The better question is: are there any transputers to be found on the > market at all? > The other is: are they worth the porting effort? > The third: do they have any form of memory management? > > To the best of my knowledge, the answer to all three is 'No'. You might as > well ask for a port to Intel 80286 (with the exception that '286 can be > bought in any quantities, new, rather cheap, if you know where to ask.) really ? I thought the bottom of the line for Intel was the 186 and the 386-for-embedded-systems Luigi