From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 18 21: 6:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1pub.verizon.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B222637B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:06:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from gte.net (crtntx1-ar3-097-170.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.97.170]) by smtppop1pub.verizon.net with ESMTP for ; id XAA22419631 Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:01:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3A175FC5.F66732F0@gte.net> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:06:13 +0000 From: Jason Halbert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pentium Itanium References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote: > > > Do you think that FreeBSD supports the new Pentium Itanium 64-bit > > processor? I looked at the Intel website and they say UNIX does > > support it. Afterall FreeBSD does run on other 64-bit processors. > > I'm not sure if I just wanna go ahead and get a Xeon with a 2MB L2 > > cache or wait for the Itanium to come down in price. > > > well first off, it's just Itanium, not pentium itanium... second, FreeBSD > support for this cpu is in the works as far as I know. Sorry about that. :) I just woke up and was reading and my mind was somewhere else. I'm not prone to mistakes like that. -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Jason P. Halbert | res02jw5@gte.net | | Transmitter Maintenance Engineer | ICQ#: 86637300 | | KDAF-TV WB33 | DALnet: Push^Pop | | KDTX-TV 58 | (214) 252-3300 | ------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message