On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 04:22:26PM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> I friend sent this to me:
> 
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> Debian currently supports more architectures than any other open OS...  the
> NetBSD *kernel* may support more, but I doubt it (other than 32532, and mine
> has really been collecting dust!).  See
> 
>        http://buildd.debian.org/stats/graph.png
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> 
> Is this true?

the graph lists the following 13 architectures:

alpha
arm
hppa
hurd-i386, i386
ia64
m68k
mips, mipsel
powerpc
s390
sh
sparc

arguably we could shrink that down to 11 distinct processor families by
combining hurd-i386 and i386, and mips and mipsel.

the NetBSD system (complete and self-hosting) runs on 11 processor
familes:

alpha
arm
i386
m68k
mips
ns32k
powerpc
sh3
sparc
vax
x86_64

debian supports hppa and s390.
NetBSD supports vax and ns32k.

looks like a tie to me.  :)  anybody know how NetBSD/s390 and
NetBSD/hppa are coming?

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