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Subject: Re: Opteron vs. XP

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 19:56:30 06/29/03

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On June 29, 2003 at 17:54:25, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:


>>It will be several years before we see commercial 64-bit engines for Opteron.
>>We may never see them for Itanium.
>
>This is bloody nonsense. World champs november 2003 most of the participants
>will be running 64 bits opterons/AMD64s there i bet and within a few months
>those versions will hit the market too.
>
>I show up however at 500Mhz cpu's.
>
>But i'll take 500 with me ;)

I may be wrong - and this is one case when I hope I am.  But there won't even be
a 64-bit version of Windows for Opteron out by Nov 2003 so what OS will these
commercial engines run?  A beta?  Very few commercial engines run on Linux.



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