From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 3 16:16:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28194 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atl.bellsouth.net (mail.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28188 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bangpath@bellsouth.net) Received: from default (host-209-214-67-116.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.67.116]) by mail.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA16085; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 19:15:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990103191205.00888a10@mail.atl.bellsouth.net> X-Sender: bangpath@mail.atl.bellsouth.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 19:12:05 -0800 To: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Dr. MacEnstein" Subject: Re: IA-64 support In-Reply-To: References: <19990103141806.A83680@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> > 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 > Check out Maximum PC magazine (current issue). It has a great article on the technical aspects of the AMD K7; 64-bit, multi-processing capable, advanced FPU, 200 MHz bus, based on Alpha and Intel technology. THAT'S what I want to run FreeBSD. ---------------------------------------| There are two major products that came | out of Berkeley: LSD and BSD Unix. We | don't believe this to be a coincidence.| -Author Unknown | ---------------------------------------| Andrew ----> bangpath@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message