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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:07:50 -0700
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Merced Port of FreeBSD?
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According to the article at 


http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0316/16merc.html

only a few commercial vendors are likely to be able to survive
the transition to 64-bit UNIX on Intel's Merced chip. Which
begs the question: What about FreeBSD? Will it be ported
in a timely manner?

--Brett

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