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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!main.put.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: FBSD Future... X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 19 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DzAxKx.Bw9@news2.new-york.net> References: <Dz37x9.7vC@news2.new-york.net> <199610111548.JAA29164@trout.mt.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.3.91.961011121248.28443A-100000@main.put.com> <DzA1z6.Gyp@kithrup.com> X-Trace: 845356928/14293 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 05:22:09 GMT Sean Eric Fagan (sef@kithrup.com) wrote: : In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.961011121248.28443A-100000@main.put.com>, : Louis Epstein <le@main.put.com> wrote: : >> >(64-bit 3.x is presumably years away still). : >> 64-bit is probably more like 6.x or something. : >Hmm,isn't SCO(which the non-commercial UNIXes are supposed to be years : >ahead of) already doing a 64-bit version? : : There is already a 64-bit version of *bsd -- NetBSD on the Alpha. : : FreeBSD (and all other 4.4-derived *bsd's) already support 64-bit file : offsets (to varying degrees, admittedly). : : Since the x86 is not a 64-bit platform, there will never be a "64-bit unix" : for it. That's a bit sweeping.For x<3,it isn't a 32-bit platform either... but for x=8,perhaps it will be 64?It's already got a 64-bit datapath for x>4...