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.
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