From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 6:25:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netvisor.hu (mmtp89.mit.bme.hu [152.66.81.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F86D15596; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 06:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from szoli@netvisor.hu) Received: from localhost (szoli@localhost) by netvisor.hu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15359; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:58:57 +0200 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:58:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Sebestyen Zoltan X-Sender: szoli@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu To: Jay West Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Intel? - NOT In-Reply-To: <000e01bef08b$3d606340$d402a8c0@ws2.tse.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Jay West wrote: > Keep in mind that the merced chip was not really designed or created by > Intel at all. >=20 > It was created almost completely by HP (by the same group responsible for > PA-RISC), with Intel as merely the production facilities. For obvious > marketing, competitive, and resource reasons both HP and Intel share the > rights to merced. >=20 Does that mean that Merced is heir of the PA-RISC design just like PowerPC is the heir of IBM POWER processor family's? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- Sebesty=E9n Zolt=E1n =09I'm believing that the Holy Spir= it is =09=09=09=09=09gonna allow the hand, and the foot, and MAKE INSTALL NOT WAR=09=09=09the mouth, just to begin to speak, and to minister, and to heal coordinate= d by =09=09=09=09=09the head. I use UNIX because reboots are for hardware upgrades. Kick me! Whip me!! Make me develop on AIX!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message