From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 29 20:49:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FC81507B; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 20:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11LIRI-0006Kd-00; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:49:01 -0600 Message-ID: <37C9FF2A.E512AB60@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 21:48:58 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte 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??? References: <199908272225.AAA03716@yedi.iaf.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > > As Wes Peters wrote ... > > > > 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. It doesn't seem likely, since they don't HAVE and Merced systems yet. Perhaps it has been "administratively cancelled" but the Alpha boxes won't "fall over" until the Merced boxes arrive. Or perhaps until NT actually *runs* on them. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message