Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot
Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks