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Topics" to "Hardware compatibility".
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<corpauthor>The FreeBSD Documentation Project</corpauthor>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.229 2001/06/24 21:06:47 chris Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.230 2001/06/24 21:10:21 chris Exp $</pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>1995</year>
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<title>Hardware compatibility</title>
<qandaset>
<qandaentry>
<question id="architectures">
<para>Does FreeBSD support architectures other than the
x86?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Yes. FreeBSD currently runs on both Intel x86 and
DEC (now Compaq) Alpha architectures. Interest has also
been expressed in a port of FreeBSD to the SPARC architecture,
join the <email>freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
linkend="mailing"> mailing list</link> if you are interested
in joining that project. Most recent additions to the list of
upcoming platforms are IA-64 and PowerPC, join the
<email>freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org</email> and/or
<email>freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
linkend="mailing">mailing lists</link> for more information.
For general discussion on new architectures, join
the <email>freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org</email>
<link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="supported-hard-drives">
<para>What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?</para>
@ -11845,30 +11869,6 @@ ${RELEASEDIR}/tarballs/bindist/bin_tgz.)</programlisting>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="architectures">
<para>Does FreeBSD support architectures other than the
x86?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>Yes. FreeBSD currently runs on both Intel x86 and
DEC (now Compaq) Alpha architectures. Interest has also
been expressed in a port of FreeBSD to the SPARC architecture,
join the <email>freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
linkend="mailing"> mailing list</link> if you are interested
in joining that project. Most recent additions to the list of
upcoming platforms are IA-64 and PowerPC, join the
<email>freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org</email> and/or
<email>freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.org</email> <link
linkend="mailing">mailing lists</link> for more information.
For general discussion on new architectures, join
the <email>freebsd-platforms@FreeBSD.org</email>
<link linkend="mailing">mailing list</link>.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question id="major-numbers">
<para>Can you assign a major number for a device driver I have