From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 3:17: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D28714D59; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 03:17:01 -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 LAA30942; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:53:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA31165; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:50:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199908270950.LAA31165@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? In-Reply-To: from Kenny Drobnack at "Aug 26, 1999 11:35:43 pm" To: kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu (Kenny Drobnack) Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 11:50:12 +0200 (CEST) Cc: 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Kenny Drobnack wrote ... > Lately i have seen a lot of speculation as to what will happen when the > Intel Merced comes out. Will people wait 12-18 months for a 64 bit > Windows (that's the amount of time I keep hearing it will take them to get > Win2000 running on it) or will they just buy it and pop Linux onto it > right away? If the majority of the people opt for option #2, it may mean > Linux will finally get a huge edge over M$! > While Linux is a great OS, and I like seeing M$ have some > problems, I would even more like to have the assurance of being able to > run FreeBSD on 64 bit architecture. Is there any port planned to that FreeBSD already runs on Alpha, which is very 64 bit. So, there is both experience and code I'd say. -- | / 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-questions" in the body of the message