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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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