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Wojtek Skulski wrote:
>> Oms's presentation at CERN recently (http://cern.ch/oberon.day/)
>> refers to a 64-bit Unix version of BlackBox.
>
> In the same presentation Oms also mentioned their plan for Linux
> version, though they seem to indicate this will be a server-only
> "BlacBox kernel".
> It is not clear to me why Oms are holding off on full BB for both Linux
> and 64-bit Unix. Perhaps they are concerned about manpower resources
> needed to support such releases?
>
> I wonder what would be the market and how much it would cost per seat.
> Who on this list is running a 64-bit OS?
I'm using Mac OS X 10.3 (based on BSD Unix), which on the latest Apple
models (with IBM's PowerPC G5 microprocessors) is 64-bit enabled.
Hans Klaver
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