Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 20:30:52 -0700 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 |
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> 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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