From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 6 00:58:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA18287 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 00:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA18261 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 00:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA21003; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:54:40 +0200 (IST) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V2.0) id xma021000; Tue, 6 Jan 98 10:54:16 +0200 Message-ID: <34B1F1D3.7D56@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 10:56:51 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jack Holloway CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on the PowerPC chip? References: <199801060433.WAA01969@mail.midusa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jack Holloway wrote: > > I was wondering, you guys run FreeBSD on A LOT of different platforms, do > you plan on ever doing a port of it to the PowerPC chip, you know, IBM > machines, CHRP, PREP, and PowerMacs? I think you're mixing up FreeBSD with NetBSD. FreeBSD currently only runs on i386 machines (though an Alpha port and a Sparc port are both under some type of initial development). NetBSD is the BSD derivative that's been ported to the largest number of platforms. > > ______________________________________________ > Jack Holloway, holloway@midusa.net > http://kjweb.home.ml.org > "No electrons were harmed in the sending of this e-mail." > ______________________________________________ Nadav