From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 10:10:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo.feral.com [192.67.166.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2566E37B403 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:10:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonky.feral.com (wonky.feral.com [192.67.166.7]) by beppo.feral.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9QHAEH10055; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:10:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:10:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011026100750.H68844-100000@wonky.feral.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 6:49 PM -0700 10/25/01, David O'Brien wrote: > >Thus I want time_t to be the same size on every FreeBSD platform so > >that time wrap-arounds happen in the same way on the most popular > >platform (read i386) which gets a lot of testing and defines what > >is FreeBSD in behavior, and the Alpha platform (which at times seems > >to only have a hand-full of users). As we get more platforms, we > >are only going to have more of the problem of FreeBSD really only > >being well used on one of our offered architectures. > > Actually, I expect the opposite to happen. I can get my hands > on both PowerPC and Sparc64 machines a lot easier than Alpha > machines, and certainly Intel is going to push to make IA-64 > very common. As these new "higher-volume" platforms come online, > I expect a larger percentage of FreeBSD users will be using > machines that are NOT i386... > I would expect Intel to in fact *not* push IA-64 for desktop machines- at least not for several years. They would osborne themselves out of their main revenue stream *and* open themselves up to a horde of mini-AMDs coming in and snagging that market. *Unless* Micros$ft makes a new release of XP 64 bit. And we all know how enthusiasitc they were about the Alpha 64 bit port for NT...... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message