On Thursday 25 November 2004 05:19 am, Len Lawrence wrote:
> A bit OT this; however
>
> Is Mandrake correct about Linux being the first OS to support 64bit
> architectures? I can remember VMS running on 64bit DEC Alpha machines
> at ROE (the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) back in the early 1990s. VMS
> on a 200 MHz machine, and from 1993 DEC OSF/1 UNIX. Later in the
> decade we had 600 MHz Alphas when the fastest PC was a 32bit 200Mhz
> Pentium Pro. They produced bulky code but they were fast man, for
> their day. Fairly sure that both RedHat and Mandrake supported the
> Alpha processor.
Len:
I think that Mandrake's claim refers to AMD and Intel platforms, although they
don't make an explicit statement to that effect:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2521
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