razmjooeis wrote: > > I am reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_System > > It claims: > > "Release 7.00 was issued in May 2006 and followed up by > > Release 7x in the next three months. 7x was released in two > > flavors: 32-bit and 64-bit. > > Manifold 7x was the first ever 64-bit GIS application > > in the industry."
Markus N: > If we are not industry, maybe yes :p (yes, we count :) > Changelog: > http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ChangeLog.gz > 2005-07-12 15:11 markus > * added 64bit notes > > 2005-07-15 11:40 markus > * advertise 64bit support if > activated > > No claim that I did the work of course! It was the effort > of multiple developers, just above traces I could easily find. ISTR that Brad did a lot of work cleaning things up and modernizing it. (?) > > Does any know when GRASS 64-bit was first released? > > http://grass.osgeo.org/announces/announce_grass500pre2.html > GRASS GIS 5.0.0pre2 released 13 September 2001 > "Platforms supported by GRASS: > Linux, Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris/Intel, Silicon Graphics > Irix, HP-UX, > DEC-Alpha, PowerPC, MacOS X, AIX, BSD, CRAY and other UNIX > compliant > platforms (32/64bit), experimentally Windows NT/2000 > running Cygnus > " > > ... so that was way before 2006. DEC-Alpha and Sun's SPARC chips were 64-bit since forever, and we did ship official Solaris binaries once upon a time (did Paul make those?). I'd hazard a guess that there was a 64 bit [capable] release of GRASS, used in production, 10 years if not more before the above date of 2006. e.g. anyone know what hardware Lockheed-Martin were running to run GRASS back then? I'm guessing it wasn't cheap 386s, and anyway that predates the GRASS port to & rise of linux in '96(??). So my guess for the first 64 bit GRASS would be early 90s with the emergence of the 64bit RISC chips. I never had a CRAY to play with though, & don't know the history there. :) Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
