Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:10:46 +0000 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org>, Roger Davidson <rd787@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processor compatability Message-ID: <20020118101046.GA4126@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <002a01c19fac$26606f50$22142518@cn992270a> <20020118090301.GC448@irrelevant.org> <20020118014144.B30632@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:41:44AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:03:01AM +0000, Simon Dick wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 06:10:26PM -0500, Roger Davidson wrote: > > >=20 > > > Is the (Apple) Motorola processor more "BSD friendly" than Intel/A= MD, > > > vice-versa, or no real difference? > >=20 > > FreeBSD only works on x86 processors, so for FreeBSD the answer would be > > no. >=20 > Well, it's not only x86 thesedays; alpha has been working well for > several years, IA64 and Sparc64 ports are running multiuser, and > there's a PPC port which is in its initial stages. >=20 > For running BSD on PPC today, though, NetBSD, OpenBSD or Darwin are > your only choices. I know it's not, but there is no currently working port for the platforms he asked for (ie I knew there was none that he'd be able to use and I just phrased it wrongly :) --=20 Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8R/SlcMZZ83VSvRkRAnEqAJ9fRJj2NNLZJQZk6ENFPZL1ykUEbgCgiLAe RAQlxXPxK3HmayRgwhK6lws= =OMDJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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