Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 November 2005 10:33 am, Sid Boyce wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 November 2005 5:25 pm, Mike Roy wrote:
> >> Hello everyone:
> >>              Just a short note to say thank you to all of you who
> >> responded to my earlier request about 64-bit machines and Linux.  I
> >> didn't realize just how many flavors of Linux are running on AMD 64
> >> machines, it was an eye-opener.  And the Intel EM64T and the Itanium
> >
> > (IA64) and the HP Alpha.
> > Remember that Linux has over 10 years of experience with 64-bits. This
> > is more than any commercial Unix except for HP's Tru64 Unix. And
> > Windows is not quite there yet as a fully released product.
>
> Linux also runs on UltraSPARC (Sun and Fujitsu), IBM/Fujitsu z/390
> mainframes and on the new PSI IA64-based mainframe (z/OS, Windows,
> Linux, Solaris x86_64) not yet out in the wild, using Amdahl mainframe
> microcode and setting to offer resilience and uptimes to rival anything
> from IBM, looks like my boys will be back with a bang.
This is true and HP-UX runs 64-bits on PA-RISC and IA64. But, these are 
relatively more recent as Tru64 Unix is the first 64-bit Unix followed by 
Linux on the Alpha in 1995. My statement was the 64-bit Linux predates all 
commercial Unixes except for Tru64 Unix. We actually had it running at a 
Boston Computer Society meeting in February, 1995. 
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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