Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:48:57 -0400 From: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Quick question ia64 vs amd 32/64 Message-ID: <20030516024857.GB25123@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> In-Reply-To: <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1053046569.f0b2ee7da38a9@mail.mjpelletier.com> <20030516013941.GA38966@dragon.nuxi.com>
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* David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> [2003-05-15 21:40]: > On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 08:56:09PM -0400, Michael J. Pelletier wrote: > > 1) Which architecture is currently supported more Intel or AMD? > > Intel IA-64 > > > 2) Which architecture will be maturely supported first by FreeBSD? > > IMHO, AMD64. Note I am biased though. Today more committers have AMD64 > boxes than IA-64, much less 6 mo. from now. The AMD64 platform has a > much more common i386 architecture and can share i386's packages. > > > > In your option which architecture is better and why? > > AMD64, but again I'm strongly biased and this question should be taken to > chat@freebsd.org > > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ia64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ia64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You're probably better off getting infrom from Gartner or Giga. They track stuff like that... jpb ===
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