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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!ix.netcom.com!news.webspan.net!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!netapp.com!netapp.com!not-for-mail From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The Window to Kill Windows?? Date: 15 Jul 1997 13:53:42 -0700 Organization: Network Appliance Lines: 37 Message-ID: <5qgo0m$pes@tooting.netapp.com> References: <EDCIDs.K2I@nonexistent.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tooting.netapp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44478 Louis Epstein <le@put.com> wrote: >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, 64-bit FreeBSD 4.x won't help there if it doesn't run on IA64 machines. When there'll be a 64-bit FreeBSD for IA64 depends on, among other things, when: the IA64 architecture spec is available; compilers and linkers for IA64 usable by FreeBSD are available (e.g., GCC); specs for Merced are available; specs for support chips used with Merced are available; people have time to implement stuff from those specs; machines are available to test what they've implemented. Whether FreeBSD - or Linux, or, heck, even the SCO/HP UNIX-of-the-future planned for IA64 - for IA64 will "kill" NT is another matter; has anything touted as an "XXX-killer" has ever succeeded in killing the XXX it was allegedly going to kill? -- Reply, or follow up, but don't do both, please. postmaster@localhost postmaster@127.0.0.1