From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 5 21:48:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guppy.pond.net (guppy.pond.net [205.240.25.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B2614EE7 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gryph@mindless.com) Received: from mindless.com (snapuser2-89.pacificcrest.net [216.36.34.89]) by guppy.pond.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA27719; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 21:43:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37FAD45F.9A04C962@mindless.com> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 21:47:27 -0700 From: "D.M.P." Organization: dmp@aracnet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Will Andrews Cc: Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Will Andrews wrote: > On 05-Oct-99 Kris Kirby wrote: >> It wasn't that long ago that I began to think about the fact that Apple >> had contacted the FreeBSD folks (-core, I think) about including some >> parts into Mac OS X. For some reason, I thought about the possiblity of >> porting FreeBSD to the "Mac" platform and was suddenly enlightened. >> However, if Mac OS X doesn't run on 68K machines, I see no reason why we >> can't ask for a little help in porting... > > The 68K machines are, as far as I'm concerned, obsolete. The last one I used > regularly (once or more a day) was the Mac LC 575, and that was in 1995. I do > not care anymore for such worthless hardware. If you have a junky one around, > it's probably good enough that NetBSD would be able to run on it (I think). Don't count 68k's out just yet. There's quite a few Performa and Quadra systems still in use as firewall boxes or low-traffic mail servers. Just as one would use a 486 for the same jobs with FreeBSD. -- "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Truth and faithfulness are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind." -- Cicero To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message