&os;/&arch.pc98; is a port of &os; which aims to run on the NEC PC-98x1 (pc98) architecture. The project's goal is to make &os;/&arch.pc98; work the same as FreeBSD on other architectures. Most of the kernel source is already included in the FreeBSD source tree and most of the userland utilities built from the source work fine.
&os;/&arch.pc98; is a - Tier 2 architecture at the time of 9.0-RELEASE. Although - this was a Tier 1 for a long time since 5.0-RELEASE, it was + Tier 2 architecture at the time of 9.0-RELEASE.
+ +Although + FreeBSD/pc98 was a Tier 1 for a long time since 5.0-RELEASE, it was downgraded due to FreeBSD no longer supporting installation from - floppy disks, and pc98 machines not supporting booting from CD/DVD.
+ floppy disks, and most pc98 machines cannot boot from CD/DVD. + Although later pc98 machines can boot from CDROM, FreeBSD's support + for that has not been integrated into bsdinstall and release tools.