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From: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: IA-64 support
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> In the last episode (Jan 02), Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski said:
> > When the Intel IA-64 based chips come out starting with the "Merced"
> > and then the "super-amazing" chip to follow it up, how fast would a
> > port of FreeBSD to IA-64 be expected? Is IA-64 something the FreeBSD
> > development team is looking into at all? Although I'm generally an
> > end-user and an aspiring C/asm programmer ;) hehe, I think I MIGHT
> > look into this IA-64 stuff... but I'll need an O/S to power it and
> > although NT5 is 64-bit compliant I don't want that to be my window
> > into 64-bit computing....
> I believe that when Intel was pushing the Merced (they seem to have
> forgotten about it), they promised to give the free OS people all the
> information they would need, plus access to Intel's testing facilities.
> I'd rather just run FreeBSD/Alpha on a non-vaporware 64-bit CPU, thank
> you :)

Thats all fine and dandy but did you here about AMD 64 bit CPU thats
coming out earlier than the Merced.  It's suppose to jump the 100Mhz bus
and go straight to 200Mhz and modeled after the Alpha.  Pentium killer or
just hype?

JOHN


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