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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux or freebsd as backbone router
Date: 20 Sep 1995 03:59:24 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In-reply-to: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of 19 Sep 1995 07:42:26 GMT

In article <43ls92$cd9@reason.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> writes:

   michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) wrote:
   >   Someday, perhaps.  Today, no.  I would say that FreeBSD or BSDI are
   >   your only choices for Intel based solutions (SGI makes a nice box
   >   too, but that's in quite a different price league! :-).

   >*waves*  Hey Jordan.  We still run on Intel platforms, too... :-)

   He wanted to run with the Emerging Technology boards though, and since ET
   only provides binary drivers for FreeBSD, BSDI and Linux I figured
   that those were the only alternatives.  No slight to NetBSD intended.

OK, that makes more sense. :-)  I thought maybe you guys had assumed
we abandoned the Intel hardware altogether...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                                 michaelv@HeadCandy.com
       --<  Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x  >--
     NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
                           DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
     NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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