Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:20:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike <mike@ns1.seidata.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: talk (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519111332.24546C-100000@ns1.seidata.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980519092616.1367D-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Stephen Roome wrote: > I guess that would be a "No". Wasn't someone writing ARMbsd or RISCbsd > or something.. did he die or did Intel pay him to stop or something ? *laff* The StrongARM is a 'souped up' RISC processor, right? Didn't they basically take a RISC chip, strip out a few select instructions (modified to run at super-low power) and add lots of cache? The now discontinued Apple Message Pad 2100 used the ARM at ~200MHz, I believe. Impressive. I've always heard (I have no motorola experience, yet) that motorola asm blows x86 away when it comes to efficiency. A friend I have develops for Be and he's always ranting about it. :) > [It still amazes me that there are so many better options than Intel and > no-one ever uses them, writing ARM is a damn sight easier than 80x86 Likewise, it always amazes me that there are so many better options than M$ and very few utilize them. Personally, I'm always interested in new ideas/ports/processes. Anything to work toward a 'bigger/badder/better' future. ;) -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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