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From: benco@ucsee.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Ben Cottrell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mach Microkernel + FreeBSD + PowerMacs
Date: 21 May 1996 18:20:52 GMT
Organization: UC Berkeley Society of Electrical Engineers
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In article <960520191156-rrwood@io.org>, Roy Wood  <rrwood@io.org> wrote:
>I prefer FreeBSD to Linux, so I wonder how hard it would be to port over 
>FreeBSD to run on top of the microkernel, too.  Thus far, I've used 
>FreeBSD only on x86 PC's, so I'm not even really aware of whether it 
>already has support for Mach or not-- anyone better informed have 
>anything to comment there?

Actually, this is better suited to NetBSD than FreeBSD :-) As I understand
the distinction, NetBSD is an extension of the original CSRG efforts--it's
multiplatform and aims to provide a free UNIX to everyone--whereas FreeBSD
is an optimized BSD-like OS for the PC architecture only, and works better
than NetBSD on the PC architecture only.

As a matter of fact, there has been a discussion of porting NetBSD to
the PowerMacs--I think the consensus is that it'll be easy, that there
has already been a port of NetBSD to the Mach microkernel, but that
dobody so far has really volunteered to take charge of the port.
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