Microsoft Propaganda against 64-Bit Software

Andrew L. Gould algould
Mon May 17 12:02:01 PDT 2004


On Thu, 6 May 2004 12:48:30 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
> And Redhat, and Gentoo, and Debian.  I think all the major distros
> have 64bit CPU support now.  And that's ignoring Sun's Solaris which
> is designed for their 64 bit Ultra Sparc line.  It also wouldnt'
> surprise me if the *BSD offerings had 64 bit support.
> 
> So basically, its just M$ that lacks it.
> 
> -- 
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> Lonni J Friedman				netllama at linux-sxs.org

Yep.  NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD all support AMD64.  NetBSD has
supported it since 2001.  Mac OSX has its G5.  Yellowdog Linux has
"preliminary" support for the G5.

Andrew Gould



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