From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 6 6:27:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from umd5.umd.edu (umd5.umd.edu [128.8.10.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CAC15226 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 06:27:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from tracy.umd.edu (tracy.umd.edu [128.8.10.51]) by umd5.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA23653; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by tracy.umd.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA28558; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:27:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tracy.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 09:27:07 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard X-Sender: howardjp@tracy.umd.edu To: "D.M.P." Cc: Will Andrews , Kris Kirby , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD to the Mac (68K or PPC) In-Reply-To: <37FAD45F.9A04C962@mindless.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, D.M.P. wrote: > 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. Here at the University of Maryland, the Aerospace people have built a robot using a 68k processor and a more powerful version using PPC. I kind of suspect they are using VME boards for it. A friend of mine is working as a programmer on the project but he has no idea what is inside the box. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message