From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 14:42:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05DC537B514 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA80983; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <200002172242.OAA80983@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: 64bit OS? In-Reply-To: <200002172234.JAA22191@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> from Patryk Zadarnowski at "Feb 18, 2000 09:34:29 am" To: Patryk Zadarnowski Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 14:42:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: Steve Ames , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > FreeBSD when that happens. In the meantime, the only alternative would be to > convince Intel to give someone their IA-64 SimOS, but there's an extermely > slim chance of that happening (from talking to someone on the IA-64 team.) > An alternative to IA-64 is the alpha processor. Last time I checked, FreeBSD ran just peachy on a 64-bit processor. ;-) Check out Cmpaq's test drive program. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message