Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:36:45 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com> To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com> Cc: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com>, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq bought Digital :(. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980127123320.16281B-100000@shell1.interlog.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980127090934.23597A-100000@tundra.winternet.com>
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NT for Merced (64bit, The Enterprise version :-)) will be late, this gives all the other Unix guys a chance to get their 64bit Operating Systems before out MS. According to MS, NT for Merced will be a complete rewrite. So far the only hold out is IBM. Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Kyle Mestery wrote: > There was a press release earlier last week that said Digital is porting > Digital UNIX to the Merced chip and the IA-64 architecture. But of > course, this was before Compaq bought them. Strange, but last year it was > HP-UX porting to IA-64, then SCO, Digital UNIX, and Solaris also. Seems > Intel is pushing everyone around these days. > > Kyle Mestery > StorageTek's Network Systems Group > > "Keep honking, I'm reloading." > "Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math." > "If we aren't supposed to eat animals, how come they're made of meat?" > >
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