From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 15:31:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6211A37B5C7 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:31:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA02639; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200002172342.PAA02639@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Patryk Zadarnowski Cc: Steve Kargl , Steve Ames , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:57:17 +1100." <200002172257.JAA22484@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:42:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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