Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:42:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Patryk Zadarnowski <patrykz@ilion.eu.org> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, Steve Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? Message-ID: <200002172342.PAA02639@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:57:17 %2B1100." <200002172257.JAA22484@mycenae.ilion.eu.org>
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> > 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. > > I don't know... I'm still to get it to boot on mine (NetBSD runs fine, but for > some bizzare reason, FreeBSD insists on a serial console ;) Anyway, alphas are > boring compared to Itanium. What else can you say about a chip with 3MB of L3 > cache on the die, a four clock cycle latency to carry the signal from one end > of the chip to the other, and the main design limitation being the US power > supplies? :) Not to mention the fact that Intel isn't even planning to release > any single-cpu system.... What can one say to that, apart from "I have one right here and it works just fine" - not something you can say about the IA-64. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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