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Haiku OS Ported To Intel 64-Bit Architecture

Posted by Soulskill on from the five-and-seven-syllables-at-a-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BeOS-compatible Haiku OS operating system has been ported to x86_64. As part of the Google Summer of Code, a student made a 64-bit port of the kernel and user-space and it's now working. However, not all of the BeOS apps and drivers are yet working in 64-bit mode."

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  1. Whoo Hoo! by Osgeld · · Score: 5, Funny

    now I can run a text editor with more than 3.1 gigs of ram

  2. Watch this.... by mark-t · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait. Now we'll see
    Everyone posting haikus
    Typical Slashdot.

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  3. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by jkflying · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because 64 is less than 86, so 86 must be better, right?

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  4. Re:AMD64 != Intel64 by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pedantic BS friend, because anybody that would have a damned clue what X86 meant would know what X64 is. Either you're knowledgeable or you're not, kinda an either or there. Anybody who knows anything about chips doesn't need to have the entire history lesson given to them because they know what X86 means, there is no point in the rest. By that same token anyone that knows anything about chips will know that X64 means a 64bit CPU that is backwards compatible with X86, just as IA64 means Itanic.

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  5. Re:Why do we keep hearing about this? by kallisti5 · · Score: 1, Funny

    News from Haiku is interesting because they're one of the few truly alternative operating systems out there that are actually progressing

    Very true... some of us are real men who do real men computer work... the rest of you can use your 'apps' from your 'app stores'