From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 14:55:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA27986 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:55:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sasami.jurai.net ([207.31.78.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA27937 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA05177; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:54:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 17:54:14 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Chuck Robey cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > I would also be a little curious about the availability of sparc hardware > for hobbyist folk. Few of us can afford $10K servers, but what other kind > of more modest setups might be available? Hopefully such a port would run on 4m/4c hardware as well as 4u. If that is the case then reasonablly priced systems are not hard to come by at all. In addition, the SMP Sparc 10/20 systems, whil aging are still quite nice. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */