Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 23:53:52 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> Cc: Remy NONNENMACHER <remy@synx.com>, adrian@virginia.edu, adrian@nvl.virginia.edu, garbanzo@hooked.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoBeads: Linux #2 ISP OS.. Message-ID: <24122.894783232@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 May 1998 15:35:03 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509153316.11054B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com>
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> 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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