From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Oct 26 22:40:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A76937B4C5 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13osa2-0000NP-00; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:20:50 -0600 Message-ID: <39F88412.D6D9F8FA@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:20:50 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Minkus Cc: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc port going 64 bit References: <200010251240.e9PCe3k05581@bg-tc-ppp1176.monmouth.com> <20001025083416.I21047@dragon.nuxi.com> <00c901c03e99$eed99850$0200000a@lan.diskiller.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Martin Minkus wrote: > > > > This is why there ain't gonna be an Ultra Port for a while. > > > Most of the folks who will volunteer to work on the stuff don't have or > > > want to purchase Ultras... > > > > I've already offered twice U1's to those that will do some real work > > towards the FreeBSD/sparc64 effort. > > I don't know how seriously involved I will get at this stage, but if in the > coming months i am, you can always send me a U1 :) I'm in australia, > however. That's not as expensive as you think. I sent Greg a SPARCstation last year, it cost about $55 to ship from Utah to South Australia. > > > 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? > > Most people are unaware of the existance of these ports. (specifically IA-64 > and PowerPC). Most people are unaware of the /usr/src tree? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message