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Subject: Re: Intel capitulates in 64 bit wars

Author: Andreas Guettinger

Date: 14:18:03 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 16:47:15, Slater Wold wrote:

>On February 18, 2004 at 16:02:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2004 at 15:37:57, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>On February 18, 2004 at 15:21:06, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 18, 2004 at 15:14:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>http://developer.intel.com/technology/64bitextensions/
>>>>>
>>>>>Apparently it's the AMD64 instruction set.
>>>>>
>>>>>--
>>>>>GCP
>>>>
>>>>Was it ever anything other than inevitable.  I guess the problem is the
>>>>undermining the Itanic.
>>>>
>>>>No doubt we will now see Window64 soon.
>>>
>>>There was a huge bitch session on the WAMD64 newsgroup about this.
>>>
>>>AMD has has the Opteron/FX out for 9 months.  No Windows OS for it.
>>>
>>>The *DAY* Intel releases their Xeon64, Windows 64 will be released.
>>>
>>>It's all about M-O-N-E-Y.
>>
>>Fortunately none of that bothered me.  Linux-64 is already working.  :)
>>
>>As is gcc-64.
>
>I ain't paying $120 for SuSe.
>
>There's something about paying for Linux, that just bothers me.


You can install Suse9-amd64 on the net for $0.

Just download the x86-64bit boot image and have a ago.

At university, we had Suse9 installed in ca. 1 hour and it was as easy to set up
as Windows.
Installing over LAN was nearly faster than from CD, but i wouldn't try it with
dial-up. :))

regards
Andy



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