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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!super.zippo.com!zdc!szdc!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Info on what is planned for 3.0? Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 19:59:03 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32B9E4D7.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <584qq1$lqe$1@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <590lmg$26j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <32B45F06.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <E2MqJA.Drr@nonexistent.com> <32B8A692.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <E2oGJB.ICG@nonexistent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32840 Louis Epstein wrote: > : (that kind of SMP that the SMP guys decide on implementing.) > : > : I believe that there will be a committed effort by at least a few of the > : core team members to support a new architecture also. I for one, intend to > : support that effort (working for the lead person on that team) > : whole-heartedly. > > Hmm,what does FreeBSD gain by expanding beyond its niche? > People climb mountains because they are there. We also need to prove (and debug) some of the concepts to make sure that they are indeed machine independent. I suspect that the X86 will still be the predominant FreeBSD architecture for the next couple of years, but I really do think that the Alpha will be somewhere in there also. John