Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:05:01 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> Cc: Kenny Drobnack <kdrobnac@mission.mvnc.edu>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD??? Message-ID: <37C70B8D.5500F38B@softweyr.com> References: <199908271414.AA097143240@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu>
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Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> ?? I thought we had already established that neither Linux or NT runs
> on Merced, only HP-UX so far. I would certainly like to see a FBSD
> port as I imagine we will be seeing Merced-based systems here quite
> early on.
Nope, it was reported last week a group at Intel has Linux booting on a
Merced simulator. That doesn't mean it's ready to release, but it's a lot
further along than most systems.
If you think Microsoft doesn't have 64-bit NT in development for Merced,
you're being awfully gullible. Compaq was insisting that Alpha remained
the development platform for NT64 while dropping support for NT32 on the
Alpha last week, while Microsoft was griping about the decision and
talking about dropping Alpha as the NT64 development platform. They can't
yet, of course, because they don't HAVE any Merced chips, but the writing
is on the wall...
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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