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#! rnews 1735 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!portc02.blue.aol.com!newsfeed.pitt.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sumner+ From: G Sumner Hayes <sumner+@CMU.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sco.misc Subject: Re: which Unix to choose? Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:39:46 -0500 Organization: Sophomore, Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <0mUpF2200YUf02VEk0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <327F5727.179F@citynet.net> <0mU6Iw200YUh0eNJ40@andrew.cmu.edu> <55vagj$eid@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: po9.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <55vagj$eid@innocence.interface-business.de> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26174 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30788 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4834 comp.unix.questions:90819 comp.unix.sco.misc:28797 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: > > If you're likely > > to want to move to non-Intel/AMD/Cyrix CPUs, stay away from FreeBSD. > > AMD CPUs are fine. For Cyrix CPUs, ``it depends''. ISTR that all the > newer ones do also work well. Oops. I was unclear. That should have been, "If you want to move to non-(Intel/AMD/Cyrix) CPUs..." In other words, if you're likely to want to run an Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc, or other non-Intel-compatible processor, NetBSD, OpenBSD, or Linux would be better choices. Grouping error. Sorry about the confusion. Cordially, Sumner Please don't CC: postings to me, my mailbox is already full enough.