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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!gateway.platinum.com!news3.noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: what ports are in progress? Date: 6 Sep 1995 18:31:18 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <42kpdm$h4t@reason.cdrom.com> References: <42is8n$rfj@mordred.gatech.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) X-URL: news:42is8n$rfj@mordred.gatech.edu coleman@redwood.skiles.gatech.edu (Richard Coleman) wrote: >What ports to other architectures are in progress? >What various stages of completion are they in? >I'm just looking for a rough idea. SPARC - rough and looking for someone to adopt it. ALPHA - actual work in progress PowerPC - People talk about it occasionally. :) >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. For the near term? I'd have to say Intel. Long term? Alpha, perhaps, but then I'd also have to judge the state of the art in ALPHA and Intel based technology at that particular junction. Or maybe Cyrix / AMD will surprise us and we'll see something on the Intel-compatible front. -- Jordan