On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 12:39:38 +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> NetBSD-amd64 will be part of the NetBSD 2.0 release which should get
> finished at some point this year. Beta version snapshost can be
> downloaded under ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/2.0/.

This is not the correct URL, it is 
ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0

> 
>> I suspect the AMD64 platform may offer superior performance.
> 
> It depends. AMD64 is somewhat faster e.g. because of the larger number
> of CPU registers. But unless your application needs more memory than
> 3GB of memory NetBSD-i386 will do fine, too. Admittedly you will

Wouldn't this have suboptimal performance? How would you make use of those
extra registers?

Bye	Pavel