Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 08:40:54 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD UNIX left out of IA-64 information Message-ID: <E10qu1e-000Ahi-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: "Matthew N. Dodd"'s message of "Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:10:59 EDT" <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906042307590.423-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On 4 June 1999, "Matthew N. Dodd" proclaimed: > On 4 Jun 1999, Bill Swingle wrote: > > Mike Smith was just standing over my shoulder reading this rather funny > > email written by Brett and had this to say: > > > > "I delegated that duty to Brett Glass at Comdex. This post is most > > likely a cover-up for his inablity to negotiate a deal with the Intel > > folks. Tell him he's fired." > > I don't see much of a point investing the effort to port to a CPU that is > still vapor and is likely to be a failure. At the very least the initial > examples are likely to be priced out of the PC market. > > I don't think it will be a big deal if more than a year passes before > FreeBSD has an IA-64 release. Surely it depends more than anything else on the compiler. How much of our source tree is assembly? I would imagine that most of the work that is being done for Linux in the respect of the compiler would apply equally well to us. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Always think very hard before messing with TCP. And then don't." -- MC -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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