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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Bebox port?
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 16:20:43 -0700
Organization: Me
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J Wunsch wrote:
] Parsek@cris.com (PARSEK) wrote:
]
] > FreeBSD is exclusively Intel >386, by charter.
]
] That must be your charter then. At least, not hours. ;-)
]
] The fact that FreeBSD is currently only available for i[3456]86
] platforms doesn't preclude that somebody might port it to another
] platform someday. As long as it's the same codebase, it will still
] be called FreeBSD.
For what it's worth, there are at least 3 FreeBSD developers I
know of who are registered Be developers. Myself included.
There are probably people I don't know about.
Also, PPC work has beem underway for about a year now; we lost
several months on documentation, a month on a shipping error,
and several more months to an injury. It is currently back on
track.
After a PPC port, it's likely that a Be port will arrive as soon
as hardware becomes available/is purchased. Jean Louis Gassee
has personally stated (in email) that Be would provide porting
information as necessary.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.