Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:00:54 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Patryk Zadarnowski <patrykz@ilion.eu.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000217185928.14441C-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <200002172257.JAA22484@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > I don't know... I'm still to get it to boot on mine (NetBSD runs fine, but for > some bizzare reason, FreeBSD insists on a serial console ;) Anyway, alphas are > boring compared to Itanium. What else can you say about a chip with 3MB of L3 > cache on the die, a four clock cycle latency to carry the signal from one end > of the chip to the other, and the main design limitation being the US power > supplies? :) Not to mention the fact that Intel isn't even planning to release > any single-cpu system.... "I could have had a PA-8600!"? Today, and not at some vague point in the future? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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