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To: Kashish King who wrote (3837)12/29/1997 3:48:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 14451
 
>Solaris and Intel are brands. The significance of the announcement is
>that the Merced will have a 64 bit operating system waiting for it
>while Microsoft plays catch-up with its 32 bit offering.

For that, Sun will first have to play catch-up with some other Unix vendors that shall remain nameless ;) that *do* have 64-bit Unices. 64-bit Solaris is yet to see the light of day in another phase than the purely gaseous one.