From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 17 17: 1:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E84237B790 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 17:01:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.42]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA48486; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:00:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:00:54 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt To: Patryk Zadarnowski Cc: Steve Kargl , Steve Ames , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64bit OS? In-Reply-To: <200002172257.JAA22484@mycenae.ilion.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > 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.... "I could have had a PA-8600!"? Today, and not at some vague point in the future? David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message