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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!zdc!zdc-e!szdc-e!news From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: TCP latency Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:14:49 -0500 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 22 Message-ID: <31EE62F9.446B9B3D@dyson.iquest.net> References: <31E6B8AB.3E6C@indy.celebration.net> <4s7j2r$blf@fido.asd.sgi.com> <31E7BD6F.167EB0E7@dyson.iquest.net> <4sfjm8$a04@news.swan.ac.uk> <4shp9i$1ci@news.interpath.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.networking:45709 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:4113 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23946 Kevin P. Neal wrote: > > Oh, and the FreeBSD guys don't seem to be interested in supporting "n" > platforms. The NetBSD group supports "n" platforms, and the FreeBSD > camp supports 1 platform well. It works out. > I agree that we seem not to want to, but we do!!! The deal apparently is that NetBSD has that baton, and so FreeBSD mostly concentrates on the X86, and other more machine independent optimizations. There are machine independent changes that we can make more easily, because we don't have to re-port every architecture :-). If I want to make a change to the pmap interface -- so be it! As long as I know that I can port that change to another architecture, there isn't a problem. So, I think pretty much that FreeBSD will be single arch, it might even be 2-3 arch, but I GUESS that it won't ever support lots of arch's like NetBSD does. John