Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Stephen Hurd
John Baldwin wrote: On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote: As there is FreeBSD port to the PowerPC and its peripherals, this machine will make a very interesting target for FreeBSD: combine the x86 code base with the PowerPC drivers and get a real hot machine. The *really* hot

Re: headless server...

2005-06-09 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:40 AM 6/8/2005, Przemysław Nowaczyk wrote: >I've tried that too. The box beeps 1 long and 3 short ones.. as far as I know >it 'tells' that way that it cannot be run without a video card.. >hehe, stupid mainboard :P Try telling it not to test or shadow video memory. On a classic IBM PC, the

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 12:57:11 -0700 Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On June 9, 2005 12:43 pm, you wrote: > > Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If they went with AMD processors, then they would have to either > > > build or find someone to build a chipset. > > > FYI, AMD makes

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: "Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Or Mac OS X moves to use the FreeBSD kernel. It seems like I have heard this before. This simly isn't going to happen, and you are incredibly naïve to Wasn't this the line I heard pretty often before Monday? Appl

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On June 9, 2005 12:43 pm, you wrote: > Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If they went with AMD processors, then they would have to either > > build or find someone to build a chipset. > FYI, AMD makes chipsets. Yes, and some nices ones at that, especially on the server side (our new d

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Jeremy C. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or Mac OS X moves to use the FreeBSD kernel. It seems like I have heard > this before. This simly isn't going to happen, and you are incredibly naïve to except that it would. It's like expecting Microsoft to switch to the OpenBSD kernel now that they

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Freddie Cash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If they went with AMD processors, then they would have to either > build or find someone to build a chipset. FYI, AMD makes chipsets. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-chat@freebsd.or

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, John Baldwin wrote: > > The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under > > FreeBSD and running Aqua. I betcha this happens FAST. > > I doubt it would be fast at all if it even happens. Unlike Linux, > svr4, and ibcs2, OS X is not just a POSIXish UNIX kern

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On June 8, 2005 02:24 pm, Nicole wrote: > On 07-Jun-05 My Homeland Security "observers" reported that Erich > Dollansky said: > > Claus Guttesen wrote: > >> on the ongoing work with FreeBSD. As most know by now Apple will base > >> it's next-generation hardware on the x86-architecture moving away >

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:27:48 -0700 John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under > > FreeBSD and running Aqua. I betcha this happens FAST. > > I doubt it would be fast at all if it even happens. Unlike Linux, > svr4, and ibcs2,

Re: apple moving to x86

2005-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Jun 8, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Stephen Hurd wrote: As there is FreeBSD port to the PowerPC and its peripherals, this machine will make a very interesting target for FreeBSD: combine the x86 code base with the PowerPC drivers and get a real hot machine. The *really* hot machine is going to be

Re: Dual P-pro motherboard, cpus, fans and RAM

2005-06-09 Thread John Baldwin
On Jun 2, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Josh Paetzel wrote: I have an intel PR440FX dual socket 8 motherboard here populated with 2x 200mhz 512K cache Pentium Pro CPUs and 320 megs of RAM. It has onboard wide SCSI and I have a pair of 4.3 gig drives for it + the cable. Also has the typical 2x IDE channel