Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:50:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <199908270950.LAA31165@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990826233048.20866A-100000@mission.mvnc.edu> from Kenny Drobnack at "Aug 26, 1999 11:35:43 pm"
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As Kenny Drobnack wrote ... > Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the > Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit > Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get > Win2000 running on it) or will they just buy it and pop Linux onto it > right away? If the majority of the people opt for option #2, it may mean > Linux will finally get a huge edge over M$! > While Linux is a great OS, and I like seeing M$ have some > problems, I would even more like to have the assurance of being able to > run FreeBSD on 64 bit architecture. Is there any port planned to that FreeBSD already runs on Alpha, which is very 64 bit. So, there is both experience and code I'd say. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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