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Subject: Re: Intel capitulates in 64 bit wars

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 21:41:15 02/18/04

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On February 18, 2004 at 17:18:03, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>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

Uh, where?!

I don't believe it's available for download, only purchase (and it's $120!).



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