From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 6 5:32:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D0AA14C90 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 05:32:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (root@rac8.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.148]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA15961; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac8.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA04646; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:31:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost by rac8.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA04642; Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:31:22 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac8.wam.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 08:31:21 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: m68k Support in FreeBSD (old thread) In-Reply-To: <199908060621.XAA00424@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > I've researched this guy a bit more, and I have to say I think it was a > hoax. What a disappointment. It would have been nice to see it running on the Mac68k (or any other older platform, 8086? :). > Uh, MacBSD is actually pretty nice. Alan Briggs and team have done a > really good job of keeping it up-to-date and functional. If I had to > pick a platform to run NetBSD on for reference, the 68k Mac would > feature high on the list (probably after the hp300, but that's another > story). I realize this. The comment stems from the fact the guy I am doing this for would prefer FreeBSD for his Macs if the opportunity arose. I think I'll bring it into work on Monday and install NetBSD over the net then. Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message