Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:39:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: "Michael J. Pelletier" <mjpelletier@mjpelletier.com> Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64 Message-ID: <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> References: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com>
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On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD? Intel IA-64 > 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD? IMHO, AMD64. Note I am biased though. Today more committers have AMD64 boxes than IA-64, much less 6 mo. from now. The AMD64 platform has a much more common i386 architecture and can share i386's packages. > In your option which architecture is better and why? AMD64, but again I'm strongly biased and this question should be taken to chat@freebsd.org -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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