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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!pacifier!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Date: 07 Apr 1997 12:15:16 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit Lines: 18 Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Apr7061516@zeus.pacifier.com> References: <332c9a76.3278270@news.adelaide.on.net> <01bc32f2$3783f300$04000001@Colin> <E79F14.n7z@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <332f5ffb.519605@news.sprynet.com> <5h51ma$b1u$2@kayrad.ziplink.net> <3337e3ad.1847437@news.sprynet.com> <5hbh2g$gah$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <333990e3.2587820@news.sprynet.com> <333EE698.41C67EA6@kzin.dorm.umd.edu> <3343cbbf.1091644@news.sprynet.com> <5i1216$gc4$1@news3.realtime.net> <33457087.6003026@news.sprynet.com> <E84Kwp.8ox@nonexistent.com> <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com> <5iamvk$tfg$18@halon.vggas.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: JYoungman@vggas.com's message of 7 Apr 1997 11:49:08 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:19923 comp.os.linux.misc:168480 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38663 In article <5iamvk$tfg$18@halon.vggas.com> JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes: In article <3346646b.68448149@news.sprynet.com>, lcappite@sprynet.com says... > >>4 years ago(when FreeBSD started) there were no 200 MHz x86 CPUs! > >Actually, there were. The DEC Alphas and the MIPS processors, all of >which NT can run on. MIPS has been dropped, IIRC. So I've heard too. And I found it quite amusing. A bunch of us are running OpenBSD/arc on our MIPS boxes. http://www.openbsd.org/arc.html -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night.