Re: Linux on Merced

George (jirka@5z.com)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 23:10:05 -0500 (EST)

> > Judging from the progress made by the Linux UltraPenguin team (David,
> > Jakub Richard), once the specs for this chip are out, a fully
> > functional Linux distribution for the Merced can be put together in
> > about two months. Probably less.

I think by the time IA64 will start to become the mainstream chip there
will be a linux port ... knowing intel the first merced will be expensive
as hell ... plus di you really think M$ will have it's NT ready by then
... look how long it took them to actually support the i386 fully ...

George

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