As Wes Peters wrote ... > Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > > > ?? I thought we had already established that neither Linux or NT runs > > on Merced, only HP-UX so far. I would certainly like to see a FBSD > > port as I imagine we will be seeing Merced-based systems here quite > > early on. > > Nope, it was reported last week a group at Intel has Linux booting on a > Merced simulator. That doesn't mean it's ready to release, but it's a lot > further along than most systems. > > If you think Microsoft doesn't have 64-bit NT in development for Merced, > you're being awfully gullible. Compaq was insisting that Alpha remained > the development platform for NT64 while dropping support for NT32 on the > Alpha last week, while Microsoft was griping about the decision and > talking about dropping Alpha as the NT64 development platform. They can't > yet, of course, because they don't HAVE any Merced chips, but the writing > is on the wall...
The trade rags here insist it has already happened: M$ stopped 64 bit Alpha NT. Beats me if it is true or not. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
