Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:10:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011026100750.H68844-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <p05101019b7ff461ad2b8@[128.113.24.47]>
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> 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
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