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Date:      Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:25:01 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters)
Cc:        mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???
Message-ID:  <199908272225.AAA03716@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <37C70B8D.5500F38B@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Aug 27, 1999  4: 5: 1 pm"

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As Wes Peters wrote ...
> Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
> > 
> > ??  I thought we had already established that neither Linux or NT runs
> > on Merced, only HP-UX so far.  I would certainly like to see a FBSD
> > port as I imagine we will be seeing Merced-based systems here quite
> > early on.
> 
> Nope, it was reported last week a group at Intel has Linux booting on a
> Merced simulator.  That doesn't mean it's ready to release, but it's a lot
> further along than most systems.
> 
> If you think Microsoft doesn't have 64-bit NT in development for Merced,
> you're being awfully gullible.  Compaq was insisting that Alpha remained
> the development platform for NT64 while dropping support for NT32 on the
> Alpha last week, while Microsoft was griping about the decision and
> talking about dropping Alpha as the NT64 development platform.  They can't
> yet, of course, because they don't HAVE any Merced chips, but the writing
> is on the wall...

The trade rags here insist it has already happened: M$ stopped 64 bit Alpha
NT. Beats me if it is true or not.

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