Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:11:28 -0800 (PST) | From | John Heil <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:01:02 +0100 > From: Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org> > To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> > Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 > > On Sam, 2004-02-21 at 19:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Any Intel people on this list: tell your managers to be f*cking ashamed of > > themselves. Just because Intel didn't care about their customers and has > > been playing with some other 64-bit architecture that nobody wanted to use > > is no excuse for not giving credit to AMD for what they did with x86-64. > > This very clear statement deserves standing ovations :-) > > If anyone from Intel is really listening here I would like them to know > that I am pretty much pissed of by their product politics as well. > > Although older Celeron processors supported SMP configurations they were > not supported and to my knowledge never used in the primary SMP market. > So in fact they even helped Intel to increase their revenues by allowing > hobbyists to build their own affordable SMP boxes. Nonetheless Intel has > decided to disable this capability in current Celeron and even Pentium > processors attempting to force hobbyists into the professional market > with about four times the cost of previous configurations. > > For my part I have understood the message from Intel, that they do not > want hobbyists looking for cheap SMP configurations as their customers > and will accordingly buy AMD in the future. > > Tom >
I'll second that.
For whatever it's worth I replaced all my intel business boxes w AMD w the advent of the K7/Athlon's and haven't looked back since, including SMP. Next up for us will be dual Opteron. I cannot see ever returning to Intel.
johnh
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