From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 27 09:38:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25493 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:38:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25449 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:38:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paulg@interlog.com) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (paulg@shell1.interlog.com [207.34.202.8]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11099; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:37:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:36:45 -0500 (EST) From: Paul Griffith To: Kyle Mestery cc: Mark Mayo , pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq bought Digital :(. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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?" > >