From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Oct 26 20:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from peorth.iteration.net (peorth.iteration.net [208.190.180.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9952B37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by peorth.iteration.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D76A45730B; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:47:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:47:36 -0500 From: "Michael C . Wu" To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit Message-ID: <20001026224736.A74924@peorth.iteration.net> Reply-To: "Michael C . Wu" References: <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200010251627.e9PGRhX06054@bg-tc-ppp808.monmouth.com>; from pechter@pechter.dyndns.org on Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:27:43PM -0400 X-FreeBSD-Header: This is a subliminal message from the vast FreeBSD conspiracy project. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD peorth.iteration.net 4.1.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:27:43PM -0400, Bill Pechter scribbled: | > On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:40:02AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote: | | > > FreeBSD is the best Unix for i386... but we've not shown any real moves to | > > the multiplatform area. | > | > Uh... the Alpha? The IA-64? The Mac-PowerPC? | Not to disagree, but the Alpha is it at this time. Period. Please try contributing to our different architecture ports. :) | Anyone have FreeBSD running on an IA-64 at this time in real production? | Does intel use it in production yet? Bet they're not yet. You are asking a lot from an architecture that really just came out this year. | as far as PowerPC -- | Anyone have it running on a PowerPC box at this time in production? Please read previous emails in the thread. The PPC port is under its way. We are hoping for some help. | IBM had Solaris available on PowerPC and NT for a real short time | around 94... Guess how many people bet on that combo. AIX is better for that. | I had a lot of PowerPC boxes here running AIX... (some with MacOS and | AIX on an IBM MicroChannel 7012 box). Right now it's Solaris, WinNT/9x, | Mandrake Linux, and my last FreeBSD box... (running 4.0-Stable and | my home grown backup program migrating to Solaris 8 and Veritas NetBackup). And? David O'Brien has repeatedly offered Sparc hardware for people willing to work on the Sparc port. People have been offered PPC hardware too. I personally just bought an Ultra5 to attempt to help. It cost me $500 on EBay. It is not too expensive for a hobby. ;) -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | keichii@peorth.iteration.net | keichii@bsdconspiracy.net | | http://peorth.iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message