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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: FBSD Future...
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Message-ID: <DzA1z6.Gyp@kithrup.com>
References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <199610111548.JAA29164@trout.mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.961011121248.28443A-100000@main.put.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:59:30 GMT
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.961011121248.28443A-100000@main.put.com>,
Louis Epstein  <le@main.put.com> wrote:
>> >(64-bit 3.x is presumably years away still).
>> 64-bit is probably more like 6.x or something.
>Hmm,isn't SCO(which the non-commercial UNIXes are supposed to be years
>ahead of) already doing a 64-bit version?

There is already a 64-bit version of *bsd -- NetBSD on the Alpha.

FreeBSD (and all other 4.4-derived *bsd's) already support 64-bit file
offsets (to varying degrees, admittedly).

Since the x86 is not a 64-bit platform, there will never be a "64-bit unix"
for it.  The stuff SCO is doing, along with HP, is for the PA8k and other
64-bit processors.  And I'm sure that, as soon as a spec is finalized,
people will start working on making teh 64-bit free unices compatible with
the spec as defined by SCO and HP.

Cyberpromo delenda est.