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Re: debian-powerpc support



On Aug 28, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Bastian Blank wrote:
 
> And NetBSD actually supports less cpu architectures then Linux.

That's never been true. NetBSD currently supports 15 different CPU types; http://netbsd.org/ports

> No, most embedded devices use ARM or MIPS cpus in the meantime.

I doubt its possible to quantify which architecture is used most often for embedded systems but Cisco is one of many licensees that have built a wide variety of devices based on POWER CPUs. q.v. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC#Licenses and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER

-Gary

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