From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 10 18:52:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA22027 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:52:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21973 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA24198; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:51:25 -0800 (PST) To: Chuck Robey cc: Jason Evans , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:57:35 EST." Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:51:25 -0800 Message-ID: <24194.881808685@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Wow, this sounds really neat. You probably want to ask the guys who were > starting on the stalled alpha port what directory structure they had > agreed on. Seeing as they probably had to answer exactly the kind of It stalled before we got that far, sorry. :) > 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 This is probably a bit premature - why not wait until the port is actually close to being finished and then check the prices? You know how volatile things are in this industry, and they may well be half the current price by then. :-) Jordan