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Subject: Re: opteron and microsoft and linux

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:51:30 09/18/03

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On September 18, 2003 at 11:09:16, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 18, 2003 at 11:05:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>Those 1.8Ghz chips you can already get for months in the shops, however it
>doesn't boot native windows yet, so that's why they don't sell massively yet.
>
>The *only* reason.
>
>The few linux guys there are already got quad and dual opterons.

     ^^^^^^^^^

And your point would be?  Intel/etc always gives Linux the latest thing they
have (IE he had a quad xeon before you could buy one _anywhere_.

But that doesn't drive the demand.  That simply makes it possible to
develop for that box, but it doesn't force it to happen very quickly.


>
>Best regards,
>Vincent



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