From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 20:39:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA16721 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:39:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-x2-1023.jumpnet.com [207.8.67.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA16687 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 20:39:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id WAA07792; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 22:39:12 -0600 (CST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Merced Port of FreeBSD? References: <199803161907.MAA18181@lariat.lariat.org> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 16 Mar 1998 22:39:11 -0600 In-Reply-To: Brett Glass's message of "Mon, 16 Mar 1998 12:07:50 -0700" Message-ID: <851zw2lymo.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brett Glass writes: > 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? Is FreeBSD have a "commercial" vendor behind it? Really, it's a matter of someone being interested enough doing it. Or maybe several someone's for an effort like this. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message