Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:25:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium Message-ID: <15069.38332.759360.177827@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104180122410.19310-100000@achilles.silby.com> References: <001001c0c782$5683ad80$215778d8@cx443070b> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104180122410.19310-100000@achilles.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack writes: > > Once that's done, it'll probably be a matter to send a clawhammer > system and a large box of cheese and crackers to the guys who did the > freebsd alpha port. If the architecture is actually so similar to x86, > it should only take them a few weekends. :) As one of the FreeBSD/alpha porters, I must point out that I don't know diddly-squat about low-level x86isms. I've never even written a line of x86 assembly. What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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