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    SubjectRe: 4g/4g for 2.6.6
    > Since these CPUs run in 32-bit mode just fine, I bet you wind up with 
    > people running Intel or AMD 64-bit CPUs long they abandon their 32-bit OS.
    > I recall people often purchasing gigabit ethernet cards long before they
    > had a gigabit switch, simply because it was the volume technology that
    > was being at the time. I think the same thing is going to happen here,
    > with AMD64 and EM64T.

    Except some bright spark at Intel decided to fix the low end stuff first,
    and not the high end stuff for ages. Marvellous - all those 64GB 2 CPU boxes
    are fixed. Triples all round.

    > AMD got a lot of things right with this one...

    If the rest of the world would catch up, I'd be a happy man ...

    M.

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