Re: OFFTOPIC: (Re: 3.0 wishlist....)-->64bit

Albert D. Cahalan (acahalan@cs.uml.edu)
Thu, 22 Jan 1998 17:24:12 -0500 (EST)


>> if WE ARE READY FOR THE 64BIT INTEL ARCHITECTURE.
>
> Ready for a chip whos design is not yet finalized, much less available?

Emulators are "available" to some groups.

> If you'd like to convince the Sacred Masters of the Cult of WinTel
> to give up copies of the magic chip designs of nda to the GCC
> folks I'm sure everyone would be happy.

HP and/or Intel have expressed interest in doing gcc themselves.

>> SCO and other have announced that they are ready (is it true?) for Merced.
>
> Vaporware for a Vaporchip.

No, for a chip emulator. SCO is running.

> Maby redhat/caldara/fsf could ask Intel for the prototype hardware
> to begin a gcc (then Linux) port earley..

We may be getting a gcc.