[openbeos] Re: question about 64-bit processors
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:38:42 +0200 CEST
Warren Myers <volcimaster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to this list, and may have missed this topic in the
> archives. If so, I apologize for bringing it out again. However, I
> have an AMD64-based system, and always wondered why BeOS didn't
> support 64-bit processors like the Alpha. I haven't done much
> systems-level programming in the past, mostly utilities and quick
> tools for myself and others, but I think this project would be great
> to port/target the AMD64 (and possibly IA64) architecture.
>
> If anyone has any ideas on this, I'd love to hear them. I'm looking
> forward to helping out with the project.
I don't plan to add support for x86-64 for R1 myself, but I surely
wouldn't mind if someone else would do it. How exactly would you like
to help us out?
Bye,
Axel.
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