looking for SCSI cable ..
Benjamin Scott
bscott at ntisys.com
Wed Dec 29 09:00:02 EST 2004
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, at 2:22am, puissante at biz.puissante.com wrote:
> I was actually surprised to find out M$ has not come out with their 64-bit
> version of Windows yet -- Linux beat them to the punch!
That's old news. Linux was natively 64-bit on the DEC Alpha at least as
far back as 1997 (maddog can no doubt give an exact date). At the time, NT
on the Alpha was still running with 32-bit code and assumptions almost
everywhere.
> There's a LOT of ugly stuff in Windows that probably had to be re-written
> for the 64-bit platform.
s/had/still has/
> If they had the slightest bit of sense they'd throw out the entire
> abortion and rewrite the OS from scratch. Oh well...
They already did that once. It's called Windows NT. It didn't help.
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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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