From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 27 15:58:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44DF2155CC; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id AAA03568; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:33:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA03716; Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:25:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199908272225.AAA03716@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: <37C70B8D.5500F38B@softweyr.com> from Wes Peters at "Aug 27, 1999 4: 5: 1 pm" To: wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters) Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:25:01 +0200 (CEST) Cc: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU, kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu, rivers@dignus.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- | / 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-hackers" in the body of the message