From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 13 02:32:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20665 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 02:32:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20660 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 02:32:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA23370; Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:31:32 +0300 (IDT) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 12:31:32 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron To: Wes Peters cc: Kevin Brackett , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD platform support In-Reply-To: <199706130303.VAA06121@obie.softweyr.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > Kevin Brackett writes: > > does FreeBSD offer support for other platforms other than i386? if so, is > > DEC one of the supported platforms? - Thanks :) > > No, but take a look at it's cousin (brother? mother?) NetBSD at > > http://www.netbsd.org/ > > There you will find the PORTABLE version of *BSD for, amongst others, > DECstation, VAXstation, AXP, and (soon) SA-110 StrongARM systems. I'd > say they've pretty much got DEC covered, except for the PDP-11 version > now being given away by SCO. ;^) Also, work on an Alpha AXP port of FreeBSD should soon start, so if you're into experimenting (and want to help), tune into the alpha mailing list. Don't expect to see anything stable coming out of there in a year or so though... > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com > > > > Nadav