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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what ports are in progress?
Date: 6 Sep 1995 18:18:45 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) wrote:
]
] What ports to other architectures are in progress?
x86 (MCA)
x86 (SMP support)
ARM (Acorm RISC Machine)
PC32
SPARC
Alpha
PPC (PReP)
x86 (ISA/EISA/PCI) 8-)
] What various stages of completion are they in?
Dunno on most of them.
] I'm just looking for a rough idea.
"Dunno" is about as rough as it gets.
Rumor has it that the x86 (ISA/EISA/PCI) port is complete.
8-).
] The reason I thought to ask this is that I'm
] considering buying a new box and I what like to
] know what my options are, since I want to run FreeBSD.
If you are buying your machine Tuesday, only x86 (ISA/EISA/PCI).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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or previous employers.