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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:37:08 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: How much better are 64 but platforms
Message-ID:  <20031030223708.GA31228@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031030220811.V367@aqua.lan.palfreman.com>
References:  <3FA00634.6000002@potentialtech.com> <20031030001309.GA19454@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031030220811.V367@aqua.lan.palfreman.com>

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:25:29PM +0000, William Palfreman wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> > I'd recommend amd64 over itanic..the latter is a vastly complicated
> > processor to support, and gcc apparently does not produce very good
> > code for it.
>=20
> I was wondering how advanced the plans are to bring native AMD64 into
> FreeBSD?  Will it get into 5.x, or will be have to wait for 6-CURRENT?
> I was thinking of buying one of these machines in the spring you see :-)

FreeBSD 5.x has supported amd64 for months.

Kris

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