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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!infeed2.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: The Window to Kill Windows?? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 10 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <EDCIDs.K2I@nonexistent.com> X-Trace: 868945168 25106 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 05:39:28 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44448 I note in the new PC Computing(the one that says the Cyrix M2 "should debut by the end of this year",as if it weren't already shipping) that they forecast the Intel 64-bit CPU codenamed Merced will be out in 1999, but Microsoft will take quite a while after that to come up with a 64-bit OS that will let it run at its full potential.(they see NT 5.0 as a "Unix killer" before then,though). Will 64-bit FreeBSD 4.x be available in this interval to blow NT away, or are the hackers too busy on the 9,072-processor SMP kernel to run the 1.8-teraflop supercomputer at Sandia(which uses that number of P6es)?