From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Oct 25 13:11: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F1E137B4C5 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:10:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA64448; Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 13:10:52 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Robert S. Sciuk" Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone out there ? Message-ID: <20001025131052.G62010@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rob@ControlQ.com on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:57:01PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 03:57:01PM -0400, Robert S. Sciuk wrote: > I think we forget our roots. Older 32 Bit workstations are being given > away, and this is where BSD grew up and belongs. BSD belongs on old crappy 32-bit hardware?? Personally my BSD roots were on DEC machines. > Porting to ultrasparc makes less sense than legacy SPARC and HPPA for that > matter, since we can get our hands on those boxes for 0$ frequently. FreeBSD specializes in the server market. I really don't think one is going to run a high-thruput server on an IPX. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) T.B. PLEASE PEOPLE learn to use your mail client and NOT CC: this list _twice_ in your replies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message