Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 10:20:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@nvl.virginia.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com>, Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>, adrian@virginia.edu, garbanzo@hooked.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoBeads: Linux #2 ISP OS.. Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980511101746.19789F-100000@huron.nvl.virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <24122.894783232@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > BTW, HP is making HP-UX for 64bit upcoming chip Intel is working > > on. So is Solaris. Wonder if FreeBSD will need to be ported also. > > This question is only coming up for you _now_? [looks around for the > rock which Yan has obviously been hiding under] :-) > > Yes, it will naturally need to be ported. If you read any of the > press announcements that Intel has released on this thing over the > last year or so, you'll see that it is not planned to be ABI compliant > with the x86 architecture and OS vendors will need to port to it. In > FreeBSD's case, that's unlikely to even begin until I64 parts are made > more or less widely available to our developers and I don't see that > happening anytime soon. We'll just have to wait and see how the > market develops. > > - Jordan Are both the UlltraSPARC and ALPHA ports completely stalled? One of thse was hoped to bring FreeBSD into the 64-bit arena before it became an issue on Intel. (In only ask because either I got dropped from the alpha/sparc lists, or there just aren't any messages.) Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualization Lab ->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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