> 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.
It is, M$ posted it on their NT website.
Even ZD is writing about it.
Kris Kedzierski
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