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From: Suleiman Souhlal <refugee@segfaulted.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP! MAJOR change to FreeBSD/sparc64
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Hi,

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 16:18:24 -0500
Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote:

> PowerPC is still 32-bTT, and I think that's a 64-bit architecture.
> But the people working on that have talked about switching to
> 64-bTT before PowerPC becomes a tier-1 platform.

  Actually the only PowerPC machines currently supported are 32-bit.
grehan@ is working on making FreeBSD work on the G5s, which are 64-bit,
but in 32-bit mode.

Later,
  Suleiman Souhlal